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Desiree

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Desiree is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 213 births. Its best rank was 94th, in 1983.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
2130.01% of girls
Peak year
19832,915 births
Best rank
#94in 1983
Since 1910
83,409people given the name
Babies named Desiree, by year of birthgirls
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

83,409 girls have been named Desiree in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1983, with 2,915 births — 0.17% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1990s alone account for 28%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Desiree
1910s20
1920s52
1930s42
1940s148
1950s3,063
1960s7,152
1970s9,864
1980s21,809
1990s23,492
2000s12,812
2010s3,854
2020s1,101

In 1983, its biggest year

Desiree was the 94th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1983 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 1983.

Names that rose and fell with Desiree

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.