Meaning not yet researched.
Desire: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 82 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,176 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,176 in 1992; #2,244 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Desire in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,244 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #1,176.
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Desire: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 82 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,176 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 164 (2008).
In 2025, 82 US girls were named Desire, making it the 2,244th most common girls’ name of the year, down 61 places from #2,183 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 87 girls named Desire in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,176, reached in 1992. The most girls given the name in a single year was 164, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,564 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Desire, making it the 6,546th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2 places from #6,548 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 13 boys named Desire in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,678, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 14, in 2023. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Desire in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 9 babies. In all, 5,468 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,337 babies named Desire.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 927 US girls were named Desire; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,601 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Desire ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #969 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Dezire, Desere and Dezyre are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dezire (990), Desere (193), Dezyre (186), Desyre (131), Desirre (111), Dessire (92), Desare (88), Dezare (42), Dezere (5).
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 Desire in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 5 | #969 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,176 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,285 | #1,322 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,315 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,584 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,593 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,175 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,703 | #2,426 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,244 | 13 | #6,546 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,183 | 13 | #6,548 |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,096 | 14 | #6,290 |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,054 | 9 | #8,478 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,048 | 10 | #7,739 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,054 | 11 | #7,149 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,206 | 5 | #12,627 |
| 2018 | 95 | #2,050 | 7 | #9,928 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,933 | 10 | #7,711 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,913 | 9 | #8,309 |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,980 | 6 | #11,089 |
| 2009 | 145 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2007 | 126 | #1,729 | 5 | #12,829 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 2000 | 133 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1998 | 125 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1997 | 124 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1996 | 117 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1995 | 145 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1994 | 129 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1993 | 136 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1992 | 149 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1991 | 147 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1988 | 99 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1987 | 108 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1986 | 88 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1984 | 74 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1983 | 86 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,661 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,272 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,095 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,336 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,304 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,295 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,351 | — | — |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,506 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,833 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,678 |
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).