Desire
Desire is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 86 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 860.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2008164 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1955
- 5,372people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,253 girls have been named Desire in the United States since 1955, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 164 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 25%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 119 boys have also been given it, 2.2% of the total.
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Desire was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Desire
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kayciepeak 2000
- Stefanypeak 2002
- Sabapeak 2001
- Ashapeak 2000
- Kayceepeak 1998
- Passionpeak 1992
- Nohemipeak 1994
- Acaciapeak 2002
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.