Meaning not yet researched.
Desi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,067 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,067 in 1959; #4,096 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Desi in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,096 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #2,067.
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Desi: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,067 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 42 (2022).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Desi, making it the 4,096th most common girls’ name of the year, down 110 places from #3,986 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 37 girls named Desi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,067, reached in 1959. The most girls given the name in a single year was 42, in 2022. For comparison, it was #6,526 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Desi, making it the 4,578th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,403 places from #3,175 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 38 boys named Desi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #984, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #5,803 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Desi in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 3,395 US babies have been given the name, 31% of them girls and 69% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 643 babies named Desi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 319 US girls were named Desi; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dessie (11,731 babies since 1880), Deasia (4,927 babies since 1880), Deisy (3,107 babies since 1880) and Deysi (1,714 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dezi, Deysy and Deyci are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dezi (657), Deysy (238), Deyci (69), Deici (35).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Desi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,096 | 22 | #4,578 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,986 | 38 | #3,175 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,485 | 31 | #3,643 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,663 | 31 | #3,635 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,184 | 22 | #4,527 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,192 | 31 | #3,510 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,804 | 24 | #4,256 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,094 | 13 | #6,434 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,108 | 23 | #4,359 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,497 | 21 | #4,658 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,526 | 15 | #5,803 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,260 | 17 | #5,304 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,810 | 19 | #4,848 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,550 | 26 | #3,925 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,203 | 30 | #3,534 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,024 | 27 | #3,837 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,565 | 32 | #3,419 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,103 | 19 | #4,943 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,031 | 23 | #4,270 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,773 | 19 | #4,729 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,622 | 12 | #6,323 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,112 | 23 | #3,899 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,442 | 30 | #3,136 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,125 | 28 | #3,205 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,408 | 22 | #3,746 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,345 | 33 | #2,754 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,616 | 29 | #2,884 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,490 | 21 | #3,521 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,526 | 31 | #2,560 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,825 | 23 | #3,136 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,654 | 14 | #4,337 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,198 | 25 | #2,871 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,919 | 32 | #2,365 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,855 | 28 | #2,549 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,567 | 32 | #2,251 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,384 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,712 |
| 1988 | — | — | 32 | #2,004 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,783 | 24 | #2,348 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,781 | 30 | #1,972 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,111 | 23 | #2,310 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,414 | 27 | #1,994 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,479 | 33 | #1,719 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,460 | 21 | #2,353 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,445 | 36 | #1,643 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,414 | 51 | #1,317 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,845 | 64 | #1,121 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,995 | 50 | #1,275 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,275 | 49 | #1,272 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,180 | 31 | #1,684 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,233 | 45 | #1,285 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,876 | 52 | #1,138 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,690 | 52 | #1,138 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,085 | 65 | #1,001 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,210 | 61 | #1,045 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,561 | 68 | #984 |
| 1969 | — | — | 43 | #1,206 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,779 | 36 | #1,260 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,372 | 21 | #1,722 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,821 | 21 | #1,695 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,618 | 17 | #1,941 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,139 | 31 | #1,413 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,637 | 32 | #1,383 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,198 | 34 | #1,347 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,220 | 25 | #1,610 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,835 | 38 | #1,276 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,067 | 42 | #1,203 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,399 | 30 | #1,427 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,963 | 32 | #1,397 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,476 | 57 | #992 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,230 | 34 | #1,297 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,047 | 47 | #1,098 |
| 1953 | — | — | 47 | #1,063 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,056 | 17 | #1,878 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,436 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,428 | — | — |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,805 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).