girls:
83.2k births since 1910
#425 (93rd percentile)
boys:
198 births since 1965
#4388 (4th percentile)
overall:
83.4k births since 1910
#775 (90th percentile)
The name Desiree is the #775 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 83,390 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 90.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #425 (92.6% percentile) for all time with 83,192 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #4,388 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 198 births since 1965.
Desiree first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1965 for boys). Birth data for Desiree is available in 99 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (99 years for girls and 27 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 Desiree has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Desiree reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 88.1% percentile (ranked #93) with 1,629 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 1,629 births per million (ranked 88.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Desiree ranks #756 for girls (20.2% percentile) with 112 births per million, which is 6.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Desiree reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Desiree".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Desiree. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.2% confident that Desiree is pronounced as DEH-zih-RAY, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-zih-RAY, at 24.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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