Meaning not yet researched.
Desiree: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 151 in 2025. Its best rank was #94 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #94 in 1983; #1,429 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Desiree in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,429 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #94.
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Desiree: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 151 girls in 2025. Peak: #94 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 2,915 (1983).
In 2025, 151 US girls were named Desiree, making it the 1,429th most common girls’ name of the year, down 292 places from #1,137 in 2024. That is 62 fewer than the 213 girls named Desiree in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #94, reached in 1983. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,915. For comparison, it was #806 in 2015 and #1,769 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Desiree in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 83,761 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 23,527 babies named Desiree.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,310 US girls were named Desiree; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 285. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,644 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Desiree ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #828 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Desirae (13,160 babies since 1880), Dessie (11,731 babies since 1880), Dezarae (1,421 babies since 1880) and Deserae (1,353 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deseree, Deserie and Desaree are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Deseree (1,251), Deserie (922), Desaree (678), Desirey (284), Deserea (216), Dezaree (166), Desarie (138), Dessiree (137), Desirie (133), Desarea (82), Dezirea (68), Dezeree (54), and more.
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 Desiree 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 8 | #828 | #1,105 |
| California | 26 | #1,033 | #570 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,147 | #1,005 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,177 | #917 |
| Texas | 21 | #1,233 | #665 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,268 | #742 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,449 | #964 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,515 | #918 |
| New York | 7 | #1,691 | #1,157 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 2024 | 213 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2023 | 197 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2022 | 227 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2021 | 232 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2020 | 234 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 2019 | 242 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 2018 | 256 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2017 | 273 | #965 | — | — |
| 2016 | 285 | #953 | — | — |
| 2015 | 349 | #806 | — | — |
| 2014 | 401 | #703 | — | — |
| 2013 | 453 | #618 | — | — |
| 2012 | 470 | #609 | — | — |
| 2011 | 485 | #594 | — | — |
| 2010 | 641 | #472 | — | — |
| 2009 | 715 | #441 | — | — |
| 2008 | 851 | #380 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,022 | #327 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,103 | #300 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,161 | #286 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,394 | #234 | 8 | #8,318 |
| 2003 | 1,505 | #215 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,550 | #214 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,721 | #191 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,790 | #181 | 5 | #10,808 |
| 1999 | 1,820 | #173 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,999 | #159 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,185 | #147 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,277 | #144 | 5 | #9,360 |
| 1995 | 2,400 | #132 | 5 | #9,210 |
| 1994 | 2,546 | #125 | 8 | #6,513 |
| 1993 | 2,444 | #133 | — | — |
| 1992 | 2,760 | #122 | — | — |
| 1991 | 2,486 | #126 | 7 | #6,696 |
| 1990 | 2,575 | #125 | 10 | #5,090 |
| 1989 | 2,348 | #127 | 9 | #5,280 |
| 1988 | 2,266 | #127 | 10 | #4,526 |
| 1987 | 2,251 | #124 | 9 | #4,653 |
| 1986 | 2,006 | #141 | 12 | #3,699 |
| 1985 | 2,304 | #126 | 7 | #5,292 |
| 1984 | 2,230 | #128 | 9 | #4,288 |
| 1983 | 2,915 | #94 | 10 | #3,943 |
| 1982 | 2,097 | #142 | 10 | #4,018 |
| 1981 | 1,607 | #171 | 8 | #4,626 |
| 1980 | 1,785 | #156 | 8 | #4,608 |
| 1979 | 1,634 | #170 | 7 | #4,977 |
| 1978 | 1,809 | #154 | 9 | #3,941 |
| 1977 | 983 | #252 | 5 | #6,084 |
| 1976 | 837 | #275 | — | — |
| 1975 | 753 | #305 | — | — |
| 1974 | 772 | #306 | 6 | #4,769 |
| 1973 | 752 | #310 | 5 | #5,285 |
| 1972 | 785 | #308 | — | — |
| 1971 | 752 | #338 | 5 | #5,099 |
| 1970 | 788 | #333 | 5 | #4,892 |
| 1969 | 772 | #325 | 5 | #4,549 |
| 1968 | 731 | #321 | — | — |
| 1967 | 732 | #323 | — | — |
| 1966 | 798 | #314 | 5 | #4,086 |
| 1965 | 855 | #310 | 6 | #3,629 |
| 1964 | 780 | #341 | — | — |
| 1963 | 819 | #328 | — | — |
| 1962 | 572 | #402 | — | — |
| 1961 | 560 | #412 | — | — |
| 1960 | 532 | #420 | — | — |
| 1959 | 499 | #427 | — | — |
| 1958 | 502 | #416 | — | — |
| 1957 | 492 | #422 | — | — |
| 1956 | 556 | #373 | — | — |
| 1955 | 766 | #309 | — | — |
| 1954 | 98 | #986 | — | — |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,855 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,566 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,149 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,588 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,517 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,504 | — | — |
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).