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Dezi vs Dezirae

American parents have registered 2,062 Deziraes since 1880, against 657 Dezis. But in 2025 it was Dezi that was commoner, 40 babies to 10.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dezi against Dezirae, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dezi Dezirae

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 49 years in which either name was published, Dezirae for 41 years and Dezi for 8 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dezi Dezirae
Total US births 6572,062
Most in one year 4095
Babies in 2025 4010
Estimated living today 6502,000
Median age today 1121
Peak year 20232006
Best rank 4,886th boys2,069th girls
Rank in 2025 5,399th9,457th
First recorded 19591978
Girls / boys 308 / 3492,062 / 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 Deziraes alive today are over 21; half the Dezis are over 11. That is 10 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: Dezi and Dezirae.