girls:
909 births since 1989
#4807 (16th percentile)
boys:
14 births since 2022
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
923 births since 1989
#6816 (12th percentile)
The name Dezire is the #6,816 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 923 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 11.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,807 (15.9% percentile) for all time with 909 births since 1989. For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 2022.
Dezire first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for girls and 2022 for boys). Birth data for Dezire is available in 34 out of the 35 years between 1989 and 2023 (34 years for girls and 2 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 Dezire has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 78.1% of babies named Dezire were girls.
For girls, Dezire reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #892) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Dezire ranks #927 for girls (2.1% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 52.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dezire reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #909) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Currently, Dezire is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #909 (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dezire".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Dezire. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.1% confident that Dezire is pronounced as deh-ZIRE, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-zire, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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