Desi
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 69.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1970 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,347since 1948
Desi over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | #3,629 | 31 |
| 2022 | #3,653 | 42 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #3,497 | 31 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #4,230 | 24 |
| 2018 | #4,076 | 35 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #4,243 | 23 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #3,119 | 30 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | — | #2,373 | 29 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,690 | 23 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,989 | 32 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #1,962 | 30 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #1,629 | 36 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #1,313 | 51 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #1,116 | 64 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #1,272 | 50 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #1,677 | 31 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #1,280 | 45 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #1,135 | 52 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | #1,136 | 52 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #1,000 | 65 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #1,043 | 61 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | #979 | 68 |
| 1969 | — | #1,198 | 43 | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #1,258 | 36 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #1,711 | 21 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #1,684 | 21 |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 | #1,918 | 17 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 | #1,408 | 31 |
| 1963 | #2,619 | 22 | #1,375 | 32 |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | #1,341 | 34 |
| 1961 | #3,189 | 16 | #1,602 | 25 |
| 1960 | #2,820 | 19 | #1,273 | 38 |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | #1,199 | 42 |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | #1,420 | 30 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | #1,388 | 32 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 | #986 | 57 |
| 1955 | #2,222 | 24 | #1,294 | 34 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | #1,096 | 47 |
| 1953 | — | #1,058 | 47 | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | #1,856 | 17 |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Desi! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1950, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Desi
- 1,378 spots since 2024 (#3,161 → #4,539)
- 1,042 spots since 2020 (#3,497 → #4,539)
- 1,207 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #4,539)
- Biggest jump: 308 spots in 1956 (#1,294 → #986)
- Biggest drop: 402 spots in 1957 (#986 → #1,388)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1970 at #979 (68 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1956–1972
- Highest: 1 in 24,948 boys born in 1972 were named Desi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #979 in 1970, was only 1 in 27,327 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.9% of all boys named Desi (537) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 312 | #986 (1956) | #1,518 |
| 1960s | 298 | #1,198 (1969) | #1,477 |
| 1970s | 537 | #979 (1970) | #1,191 |
| 1980s | 300 | #1,313 (1980) | #2,024 |
| 1990s | 264 | #2,227 (1991) | #2,861 |
| 2000s | 241 | #2,736 (2000) | #4,007 |
| 2010s | 215 | #3,510 (2011) | #4,655 |
| 2020s | 175 | #3,161 (2024) | #3,823 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Desi in 1968
Top girls' names in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
girls
1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 234,341 of them was named Desi, which outranked 31.2% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,147Yuki8
- #5,147Yuri8
- #5,147Yvonda8
- #5,642Desi7
- #5,642Adair7
- #5,642Adine7
- #5,642Agripina7
- #6,246Abigayle6
- #6,246Acquanetta6
- #6,246Adana6
Tied with 603 names at #5,642; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 48,277 of them was named Desi, which outranked 73.5% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,250Jammie37
- #1,250Melton37
- #1,250Noble37
- #1,258Desi36
- #1,258Adalberto36
- #1,258Derron36
- #1,258Dondi36
- #1,282Abner35
- #1,282Alain35
- #1,282Alva35
Tied with 23 names at #1,258; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.