Desirey
Desirey was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 284 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desirey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desirey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,312, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1998, the peak
Desirey peaked in 1998, when 20 girls were given it, #5,188 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #16,312 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,074 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,542 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,459 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,899 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,595 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,160 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,266 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,648 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,797 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 19 | #6,342 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,915 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,670 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,325 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,720 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,379 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,188 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,042 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,822 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,039 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,870 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,138 | 6.6 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,072 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,776 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,901 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,303 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,429 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,401 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,380 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Desirey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desirey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Desirey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desirey, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Desirey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 246 people named Desirey (243 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Desirey?
Desirey is a less common spelling of Desiree: SSA has recorded 284 Desirey and 83,761 Desiree since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,634 babies since 1880, Desirey is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 310 babies recorded by SSA was a Desirey (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 Desirey
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 Desirey and names like it
- Compare Desirey and DesireeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDesirey peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Desirey since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Desirey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Desirey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.