girls:
88 births since 2000
#5628 (2nd percentile)
boys:
33 births since 2000
#4553 (1st percentile)
overall:
121 births since 2000
#7618 (2nd percentile)
The name Desani is the #7,618 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 121 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,628 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 88 births since 2000. For boys, it ranks #4,553 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 2000.
Desani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 . Birth data for Desani is available in 15 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (12 years for girls and 6 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Desani has been given predominantly to girls, with 72.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Desani were girls.
For girls, Desani reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #890) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Desani reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #813) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Desani ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 85.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Desani".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Desani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.3% confident that Desani is pronounced as deh-SAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-sah-nee, at 10.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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