Desire
#2,239 for girls in 2025, 82 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 97.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 149 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,336since 1955
Desire over time
Rank among girls' names. Desire has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,239 | 82 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #2,178 | 87 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #2,090 | 92 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #2,048 | 94 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #2,046 | 94 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #2,050 | 90 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #2,193 | 84 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #2,048 | 95 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #1,930 | 104 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #1,908 | 105 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,469 | 73 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,173 | 86 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,095 | 91 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,898 | 105 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,978 | 101 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #1,556 | 145 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,437 | 164 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,726 | 126 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,608 | 133 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,574 | 129 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,714 | 113 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,612 | 119 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,432 | 133 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,384 | 137 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,395 | 133 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,258 | 147 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,373 | 125 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,377 | 124 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,412 | 117 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,183 | 145 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,312 | 129 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,258 | 136 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,174 | 149 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,184 | 147 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,372 | 115 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,574 | 89 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,409 | 99 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,293 | 108 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,447 | 88 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,410 | 90 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,535 | 74 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,379 | 86 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,822 | 59 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,958 | 54 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,187 | 45 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,938 | 50 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Desire! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Desire is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#900 · 1 in 4,861
- Illinois#922 · 1 in 4,840
- Indiana#1,054 · 1 in 5,677
- Georgia#1,310 · 1 in 7,548
- Pennsylvania#1,413 · 1 in 9,757
Best ever in a state: #371 in Mississippi, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #900 | 10 | 1 in 4,861 |
| Illinois | #922 | 10 | 1 in 4,840 |
| Indiana | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 5,677 |
| Georgia | #1,310 | 6 | 1 in 7,548 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,413 | 5 | 1 in 9,757 |
| New York | #1,425 | 9 | 1 in 9,028 |
| California | #2,380 | 8 | 1 in 21,816 |
| Texas | #2,852 | 6 | 1 in 25,913 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Desire
- 61 spots since 2024 (#2,178 → #2,239)
- 189 spots since 2020 (#2,050 → #2,239)
- 316 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #2,239)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1992 at #1,174 (149 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,530 girls born in 2008 were named Desire (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,601 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,174 in 1992, was only 1 in 12,375 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.0% of all girls named Desire (1,334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 36 | #3,436 (1959) | #4,568 |
| 1960s | 114 | #3,336 (1963) | #4,092 |
| 1970s | 273 | #1,938 (1978) | #2,949 |
| 1980s | 794 | #1,293 (1987) | #1,598 |
| 1990s | 1,334 | #1,174 (1992) | #1,290 |
| 2000s | 1,332 | #1,384 (2001) | #1,544 |
| 2010s | 914 | #1,898 (2011) | #2,125 |
| 2020s | 539 | #2,046 (2021) | #2,109 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Desire in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 17,456 of them was named Desire, which outranked 88.4% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,024Sedona95
- #2,024Teigan95
- #2,024Vianney95
- #2,046Desire94
- #2,046Blakelee94
- #2,046Coco94
- #2,046Emmylou94
- #2,057Abriella93
- #2,057Delylah93
- #2,057Halston93
Tied with 10 names at #2,046; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 174,948 of them was named Desire, which outranked 46.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,089Zylon11
- #7,089Zymier11
- #7,089Zyonn11
- #7,587Desire10
- #7,587Aadhi10
- #7,587Abdifatah10
- #7,587Abdulahi10
- #8,166Aahir9
- #8,166Aari9
- #8,166Aarion9
Tied with 578 names at #7,587; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.