Dezire
- #4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births
- #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Given to girls 97.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 53 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 962since 1989
Dezire over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Dezire has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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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 | #4,546 | 30 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,107 | 36 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,089 | 38 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,795 | 40 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,461 | 43 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1989
The first year at least five girls were named Dezire! It came in at #12,362, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Dezire is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Dezire in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Dezire
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,069 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #4,546)
- 283 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #4,546)
- 1,287 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #4,546)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2011 at #3,132 (53 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 33,190
- Highest: 1 in 33,190 girls born in 2011 were named Dezire (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 36.3% of all girls named Dezire (349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #12,362 (1989) | #12,362 |
| 1990s | 110 | #4,313 (1999) | #8,283 |
| 2000s | 349 | #3,189 (2009) | #4,262 |
| 2010s | 341 | #3,132 (2011) | #4,396 |
| 2020s | 157 | #4,263 (2020) | #5,020 |
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.
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