Dessiah — #10639 US boys' name
77 babies named Dessiah in U.S. Social Security records since 2015, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 25% of names given to boys today.
65% of everyone ever named Dessiah was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Dessiah in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dessiah
The Social Security Administration has registered 77 babies named Dessiah between 2015 and 2024, spanning 10 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dessiah currently holds the #10639 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Dessiah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 1997.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dessiah performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 50 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Dessiah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dessiah 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 77 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.
Dessiah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dessiah popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2015
- Peak year (2023)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 10 years of records
Currently ranks #10639 among boys.
77 total births across 10 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 18 births in a single year.
Dessiah popularity over time — girls
17 total births recorded since 1997 (Dessiah as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Dessiah accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dessiah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 50 births that decade — 65% of Dessiah's all-time total
Dessiah decade highlights
- Peak decade 50 births
- Runner-up 27 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Dessiah's strongest decade
50 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 65% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2015–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.