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Desirae vs Dessa

American parents have registered 13,160 Desiraes since 1880, against 1,817 Dessas. Desirae is still ahead, with 64 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Desirae Dessa

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

Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Dessa for 83 years and Desirae for 60 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Desirae Dessa
Total US births 13,1601,817
Most in one year 54031
Babies in 2025 6416
Estimated living today 13,0001,100
Median age today 2936
Peak year 19932001
Best rank 469th girls4,025th girls
Rank in 2025 2,691st6,838th
First recorded 19551880
Girls / boys 13,160 / 01,817 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Dessas alive today are over 36; half the Desiraes are over 29. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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