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Desaray vs Desirae

American parents have registered 13,160 Desiraes since 1880, against 1,053 Desarays. Desirae is still ahead, with 64 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Desaray against Desirae, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Desaray Desirae

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Desirae has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1955 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Desaray had 10 and Desirae had 56.

Side by side

  Desaray Desirae
Total US births 1,05313,160
Most in one year 63540
Babies in 2025 under 564
Estimated living today 1,00013,000
Median age today 2829
Peak year 19921993
Best rank 2,128th girls469th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,691st
First recorded 19771955
Girls / boys 1,053 / 013,160 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Desaray and Desirae.