Desiree
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
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
By decade
| Decade | girls named Desiree | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 20 | |
| 1920s | 52 | |
| 1930s | 42 | |
| 1940s | 148 | |
| 1950s | 3,063 | |
| 1960s | 7,152 | |
| 1970s | 9,864 | |
| 1980s | 21,809 | |
| 1990s | 23,492 | |
| 2000s | 12,812 | |
| 2010s | 3,854 | |
| 2020s | 1,101 |
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.
- Casandrapeak 1990
- Bethanypeak 1987
- Desereepeak 1983
- Tiapeak 1982
- Denaepeak 1997
- Bethaniepeak 1991
- Rebekahpeak 1996
- Rebeckapeak 1993
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.