Desire

girls:

5.2k births since 1955

#2344 (59th percentile)

boys:

106 births since 1915

#4480 (2nd percentile)

overall:

5.3k births since 1915

#3764 (51st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Desire".

1915 2023 19152023

Key Statistics

Total Births
5,165
Peak Births
164
Peak Year
1992
First Recorded
1955
Peak Percentile
16.8%
Current Percentile
9.1%
Peak Rank
#693
Current Rank
#861
Female statistics
Total Births
106
Peak Births
14
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
1.0%
Current Percentile
1.0%
Peak Rank
#499
Current Rank
#902
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Desire

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Desire. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 54.8% confident that Desire is pronounced as dih-ZAI-er. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-SIRE, at 9.5% confidence.

dih-ZAI-er (3 syllables)
Verified
54.8% confidence
D IH0 Z AY1 ER0
deh-SIRE (2 syllables)
9.5% confidence
D EH0 S AY1 R
dih-ZIRE (2 syllables)
9.5% confidence
D IH0 Z AY1 R
dee-ZIRE (2 syllables)
7.1% confidence
D IY0 Z AY1 R
deh-ZIRE (2 syllables)
7.1% confidence
D EH0 Z AY1 R
DEH-SIRE (2 syllables)
7.1% confidence
D EH1 S AY1 R
dih-SEAR (2 syllables)
4.8% confidence
D IH0 S IY1 R

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Desire. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Desire, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DEH-ZIRE (2 syllables)
3 names 1.2k births
D EH1 Z AY1 R
DEH-zire (2 syllables)
2 names 1k births
D EH1 Z AY0 R

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D IH0 Z AY1 ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.