Dezire
#4,581 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dezire has been given to 990 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #4,581 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 53 recorded.
Babies named Dezire, 2025
1 in 111,000
Dezire over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dezire?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 53,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,581
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dezire sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dezire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dezires were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dezire was born before 2010 — so the typical Dezire is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 962
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (349).
Is Dezire 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
- +1,088
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −294
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,298
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.36×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.6%
- Peak was 2011 (53)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.0% average annual change
Spellings of Dezire
Dezire is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 73.1% against Dezire's 0.19%.
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 Dezire is used
Across 1910–2025, Dezire was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 534,553 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Virginia1 in —
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. Dezire has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dezire by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Dezire
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dezire
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.