girls:
813 births since 1963
#4903 (14th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1995
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
818 births since 1963
#6921 (11th percentile)
The name Desha is the #6,921 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 818 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 10.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,903 (14.2% percentile) for all time with 813 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1995.
Desha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1995 for boys). Birth data for Desha is available in 43 out of the 51 years between 1963 and 2013 (43 years for girls and 1 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 Desha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Desha reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #825) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
For boys, Desha reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #800) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Desha".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Desha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Desha is pronounced as DEH-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAY-shuh, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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