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Dezire vs Dezmond

American parents have registered 3,632 Dezmonds since 1880, against 990 Dezires. Dezmond is still ahead, with 72 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dezire against Dezmond, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dezire Dezmond

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

Dezmond has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Dezire had 50 and Dezmond had 83.

Side by side

  Dezire Dezmond
Total US births 9903,632
Most in one year 53135
Babies in 2025 3972
Estimated living today 9803,600
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20112009
Best rank 3,132nd girls1,298th boys
Rank in 2025 4,546th2,056th
First recorded 19891975
Girls / boys 962 / 280 / 3,632

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: Dezire and Dezmond.