boys:
629 births since 1910
#3957 (14th percentile)
overall:
629 births since 1910
#7110 (8th percentile)
The name Desiderio is the #7,110 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 629 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 8.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,957 (13.7% percentile) for all time with 629 births since 1910.
Desiderio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for boys in 1910). Birth data for Desiderio is available in 84 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Desiderio reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #679) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Desiderio ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 27.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Desiderio".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Desiderio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Desiderio is pronounced as deh-zih-DEH-ree-oh, which has 5 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-see-DEH-ree-oh, at 19.4% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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