Desmond
Last seen for girls in 2013 at #16,547 · #376 for boys in 2025, 839 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 1,069 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 40,031since 1904
Desmond over time
Rank among boys' names. Desmond has never cracked the top 200 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #376 | 839 | |
| 2024 | — | #368 | 891 | |
| 2023 | — | #399 | 797 | |
| 2022 | — | #363 | 907 | |
| 2021 | — | #354 | 920 | |
| 2020 | — | #361 | 862 | |
| 2019 | — | #369 | 863 | |
| 2018 | — | #323 | 1,030 | |
| 2017 | — | #327 | 1,047 | |
| 2016 | — | #371 | 894 | |
| 2015 | — | #351 | 962 | |
| 2014 | — | #330 | 1,035 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #329 | 984 |
| 2012 | — | #339 | 924 | |
| 2011 | — | #355 | 843 | |
| 2010 | — | #349 | 878 | |
| 2009 | — | #383 | 789 | |
| 2008 | — | #412 | 720 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #425 | 676 |
| 2006 | — | #463 | 583 | |
| 2005 | — | #472 | 530 | |
| 2004 | — | #466 | 543 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #454 | 556 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #421 | 584 |
| 2001 | — | #397 | 636 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #375 | 699 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #351 | 742 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #352 | 741 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #308 | 885 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #375 | 626 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #361 | 667 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #359 | 670 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #336 | 752 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #264 | 1,069 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #308 | 835 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #287 | 871 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #315 | 759 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #316 | 692 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #339 | 594 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #301 | 676 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #301 | 677 |
| 1984 | — | #430 | 376 | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #441 | 355 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #454 | 356 |
| 1981 | — | #423 | 387 | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | #347 | 528 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #383 | 443 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #332 | 528 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | #407 | 370 |
| 1976 | — | #497 | 257 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #518 | 240 |
| 1974 | — | #447 | 313 | |
| 1973 | — | #467 | 279 | |
| 1972 | — | #501 | 246 | |
| 1971 | — | #534 | 225 | |
| 1970 | — | #630 | 165 | |
| 1969 | — | #687 | 132 | |
| 1968 | — | #666 | 127 | |
| 1967 | — | #615 | 148 | |
| 1966 | — | #672 | 121 | |
| 1965 | — | #665 | 124 | |
| 1964 | — | #665 | 134 | |
| 1963 | — | #723 | 117 | |
| 1962 | — | #763 | 100 | |
| 1961 | — | #793 | 92 | |
| 1960 | — | #825 | 85 | |
| 1959 | — | #993 | 60 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,172 | 43 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,090 | 49 | |
| 1956 | — | #999 | 56 | |
| 1955 | — | #949 | 62 | |
| 1954 | — | #918 | 65 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,102 | 44 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,297 | 33 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,097 | 43 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,181 | 37 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,434 | 26 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,346 | 29 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,213 | 36 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,257 | 31 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,378 | 23 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,483 | 21 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,461 | 23 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,682 | 18 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,333 | 25 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,802 | 15 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,458 | 21 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,397 | 23 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,403 | 23 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,639 | 17 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,390 | 24 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,783 | 16 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,456 | 22 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,254 | 29 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,170 | 34 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,330 | 29 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,339 | 28 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,382 | 28 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,267 | 33 | |
| 1926 | — | #963 | 50 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,246 | 33 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,133 | 40 | |
| 1923 | — | #954 | 52 | |
| 1922 | — | #840 | 66 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,360 | 30 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,747 | 20 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,063 | 15 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,539 | 23 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,528 | 22 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,206 | 30 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,600 | 19 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,545 | 16 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,256 | 17 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,740 | 5 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,193 | 8 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | #1,217 | 6 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
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| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | #874 | 8 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Desmond! It came in at #874, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1905–1907, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Desmond
- 8 spots since 2024 (#368 → #376)
- 15 spots since 2020 (#361 → #376)
- 25 spots since 2015 (#351 → #376)
- Biggest jump: 520 spots in 1922 (#1,360 → #840)
- Biggest drop: 304 spots in 1927 (#963 → #1,267)
- Debuted 1904
- Peaked 1992 at #264 (1,069 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 74 yrs · run 1959–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,763 boys born in 2018 were named Desmond (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,036 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #264 in 1992, was only 1 in 1,868 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.6% of all boys named Desmond (9,460) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 14 | #874 (1904) | #1,046 |
| 1910s | 164 | #1,193 (1910) | #1,542 |
| 1920s | 380 | #840 (1922) | #1,223 |
| 1930s | 238 | #1,170 (1931) | #1,428 |
| 1940s | 247 | #1,213 (1947) | #1,439 |
| 1950s | 492 | #918 (1954) | #1,080 |
| 1960s | 1,180 | #615 (1967) | #707 |
| 1970s | 3,066 | #332 (1978) | #472 |
| 1980s | 5,400 | #301 (1985) | #367 |
| 1990s | 7,858 | #264 (1992) | #330 |
| 2000s | 6,316 | #375 (2000) | #427 |
| 2010s | 9,460 | #323 (2018) | #344 |
| 2020s | 5,216 | #354 (2021) | #370 |
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.
Desmond in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 359,376 of them was named Desmond, which outranked 14.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,654 names at #15,432; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 3,325 of them was named Desmond, which outranked 96.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).