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Dezarae vs Dezi

American parents have registered 1,421 Dezaraes since 1880, against 657 Dezis. But in 2025 it was Dezi that was commoner, 40 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dezarae against Dezi, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dezarae Dezi

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 51 years in which either name was published, Dezarae for 34 years and Dezi for 17 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dezarae Dezi
Total US births 1,421657
Most in one year 7140
Babies in 2025 under 540
Estimated living today 1,400650
Median age today 2711
Peak year 20002023
Best rank 2,213th girls4,886th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,399th
First recorded 19741959
Girls / boys 1,421 / 0308 / 349

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 Dezaraes alive today are over 27; half the Dezis are over 11. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Dezarae and Dezi.