Desaray
Desaray was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,053 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Desaray and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desaray by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desaray?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,154, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1992, the peak
Desaray peaked in 1992, when 63 girls were given it, #2,128 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,154 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,440 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,857 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,762 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,898 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,989 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,754 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,681 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,276 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,181 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 35 | #4,048 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,015 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,963 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,254 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,324 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,602 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,945 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,242 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,115 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,649 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,032 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,709 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,387 | 29.3 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,128 | 34.2 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,893 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,652 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,491 | 15.7 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,201 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,014 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,063 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,884 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,410 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,847 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,632 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,574 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,566 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,841 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,647 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,983 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Desaray a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desaray has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Desaray: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desaray, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,053 Americans ever recorded as Desaray. The median Desaray alive today is 29 years old; half are between 23 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 803 people named Desaray (797 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,038 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 463 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 499 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 27 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,816 babies since 1880, Desaray is the fifth most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 74 babies recorded by SSA was a Desaray (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Desaray
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Desaray and names like it
- Compare Desaray and DesiraeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDesaray peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Desaray since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Desaray.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Desaray alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.