Desirea
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902
- Peak · girls
- 1985 · 68 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,875since 1964
Desirea over time
Rank among girls' names. Desirea has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 |
| 2004 | #3,224 | 47 |
| 2003 | #3,472 | 41 |
| 2002 | #2,819 | 53 |
| 2001 | #2,663 | 56 |
| 2000 | #2,374 | 65 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 |
| 1998 | #2,338 | 60 |
| 1997 | #2,070 | 68 |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 |
| 1994 | #1,862 | 76 |
| 1993 | #1,801 | 81 |
| 1992 | #2,033 | 67 |
| 1991 | #1,766 | 81 |
| 1990 | #1,781 | 81 |
| 1989 | #1,818 | 73 |
| 1988 | #1,952 | 62 |
| 1987 | #2,044 | 54 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 |
| 1985 | #1,691 | 68 |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 |
| 1982 | #2,414 | 40 |
| 1981 | #2,563 | 36 |
| 1980 | #2,189 | 46 |
| 1979 | #2,343 | 40 |
| 1978 | #2,859 | 28 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
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| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
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| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Desirea! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1967, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Desirea is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,290 · 1 in 14,817
Best ever in a state: #646 in Washington, 1983.
Show every state
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| Texas | #1,290 | 9 | 1 in 14,817 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Desirea
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1985 at #1,691 (68 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,334 girls born in 1993 were named Desirea (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 345,292 girls born in 2017 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,691 in 1985, was only 1 in 25,306 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 37.1% of all girls named Desirea (696) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 26 | #5,289 (1965) | #5,918 |
| 1970s | 127 | #2,343 (1979) | #4,941 |
| 1980s | 517 | #1,691 (1985) | #2,123 |
| 1990s | 696 | #1,766 (1991) | #2,048 |
| 2000s | 413 | #2,374 (2000) | #3,917 |
| 2010s | 96 | #5,207 (2011) | #10,825 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Desirea in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
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1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 25,306 of them was named Desirea, which outranked 86.5% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,680Manda69
- #1,680Myrna69
- #1,680Tanna69
- #1,691Desirea68
- #1,691Alysa68
- #1,691Brie68
- #1,691Cheree68
- #1,710Agnes67
- #1,710Apollonia67
- #1,710Cassey67
Tied with 18 names at #1,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.