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Dezirae vs Deziree

American parents have registered 2,062 Deziraes since 1880, against 1,457 Dezirees. Dezirae is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dezirae Deziree

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 48 years in which either name was published, Dezirae for 37 years and Deziree for 11 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Dezirae Deziree
Total US births 2,0621,457
Most in one year 9565
Babies in 2025 109
Estimated living today 2,0001,400
Median age today 2124
Peak year 20062001
Best rank 2,069th girls2,411th girls
Rank in 2025 9,457th10,107th
First recorded 19781978
Girls / boys 2,062 / 01,457 / 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 Dezirees alive today are over 24; half the Deziraes are over 21. That is 3 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: Dezirae and Deziree.