Dezi
- #5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births
- #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Given to boys 53.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1959 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 349since 1959
Dezi over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #7,536 | 8 |
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| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
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| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
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| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1959
The first year at least five boys were named Dezi! It came in at #3,988, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dezi is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Dezi in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Dezi
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 44 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,399)
- 300 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #5,399)
- 1,667 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #5,399)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1959 at #3,988 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1960, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 85,529
- Highest: 1 in 85,529 boys born in 2023 were named Dezi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,988 in 1959, was only 1 in 426,904 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 33.8% of all boys named Dezi (118) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 12 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,207 |
| 1980s | 16 | #6,250 (1980) | #6,542 |
| 1990s | 35 | #7,139 (1999) | #8,349 |
| 2000s | 68 | #5,661 (2007) | #8,574 |
| 2010s | 118 | #5,675 (2011) | #7,031 |
| 2020s | 95 | #4,886 (2023) | #5,744 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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