Desirea
Desirea was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 1,875 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Desirea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desirea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desirea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,503, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
81 babies in 1990, the peak
Desirea peaked in 1990, when 81 girls were given it, #1,780 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #16,503 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,925 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,132 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,229 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,252 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,893 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,246 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,832 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,162 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,047 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 36 | #4,235 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,772 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,599 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,226 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,480 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,826 | 29.5 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,664 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,376 | 35.8 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,408 | 34.4 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,343 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,073 | 39.1 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,181 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,250 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,867 | 42.6 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,801 | 44.8 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,035 | 36.3 |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,762 | 43.2 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,780 | 42.7 |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,819 | 39.6 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,952 | 34.8 |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,048 | 31.1 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,304 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,693 | 39.5 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,313 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,968 | 31.1 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,419 | 23.6 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,575 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,197 | 27.7 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,350 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,883 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,276 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,487 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,654 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,387 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,627 | 8.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,561 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,109 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,778 | 4.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,416 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,999 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Desirea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desirea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Desirea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desirea, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,875 Americans ever recorded as Desirea. The median Desirea alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,481 people named Desirea (1,479 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,841 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 183 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 952 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 654 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 36 |
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).
Where are babies named Desirea born?
The states with the most babies named Desirea are California, Texas and New York, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 200 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 196 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Desirea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Desirea is most over-represented in Texas: since 1964 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Desirea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,259 babies since 1880, Desirea is the fourth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 310 babies recorded by SSA was a Desirea (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 Desirea
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 Desirea and names like it
- Compare Desirea and DesireeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDesirea peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Desirea since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Desirea.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Desirea alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.