Desire — #2195 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Desire

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,253 babies named Desire between 1955 and 2024, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Desire currently holds the #2195 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 164 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Desire performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,334 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Desire shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 705 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Desire in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Desire 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 5,253 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.