Dezi — #5480 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dezi

The Social Security Administration has registered 332 babies named Dezi between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dezi currently holds the #5480 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Dezi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 283 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dezi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Dezi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dezi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dezi 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 332 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.