Desi — #3228 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Desi

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,324 babies named Desi between 1948 and 2024, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Desi currently holds the #3228 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 68 babies received it in a single year. Desi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,014 additional births since 1949.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Desi performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 537 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Desi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 249 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Desi in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Desi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,324 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.