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Desirae

#2,702 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Desiree

Desirae has been given to 13,160 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #2,702 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 540 recorded.

Babies named Desirae, 2025

1 in 51,800

Desirae over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Desirae: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Desiree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Desirae means

Desirae is a variant of Desiree.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Desirae → Desiree → Désirée. The family’s meaning is “desired”, recorded in English with the source elements Désirée.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Desiree.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,160 girls were recorded with the name Desirae between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 540 in 1993; its best national rank was #469 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,424 in 2020 to #2,702 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,626 in 2015 to #2,702 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Desirae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,800
64 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,702
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Desirae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Desirae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Desiraes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Desirae was born before 1995 — so the typical Desirae is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13,160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (4,613).

Is Desirae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+162
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−278
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,076
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.9%
Peak was 1993 (540)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#469
1993

Spellings of Desirae

Desirae is not the most common spelling — Desiree is, with 69.7% against Desirae's 11.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Desirae is used

Across 2016–2025, Desirae was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 31,232 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Desirae around the world

Where Desirae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Desirae

People whose public names include Desirae, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Desirae in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Desirae. Linked forms have their own page here.

DeseraeDesireeDésiréeDese'RaeDesi-Rae

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Desirae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,702
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 278
Best rank ever
#469
1993
Peak year
1993
540 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,160
Count in 2025
64

Names similar to Desirae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DesaraeDeseraeDestiniDessieDestineeDestineyDesireDesireeDestenyDespinaDestinyDestanyDeziraeDesireaDesirayDessiraeDessaDestinieDesereeDestinDestineDeshawnDestaniDestyni

Names with a curve like Desirae

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Desirae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Desirae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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