Desiree
Desiree is a girl's name that peaked in 1983, when it was the 94th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,427th. About 80,000 Desirees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Desiree boys named Desiree
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 83,761
- Estimated living today
- 80,000
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1983
- Best rank
- 94th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,427th
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 83,563 / 198
How old the living Desirees are
born that year still alive today
Of the 83,761 babies given the name since 1910, about 80,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 6,600 of them are children and 3,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Desirees
- Désirée Clary (1777–1860)Queen of Sweden and Norway as the consort of Charles XIV John
- Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (1938–2026)Swedish princess; elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Désirée Nosbusch (born 1965)Luxembourgian presenter and actress
- Desiree Scott (born 1987)Canadian soccer player
- Desirèe Henry (born 1995)British sprinter
- Desiree van Lunteren (born 1992)association football player
- Desiree Ellis (born 1963)South African Soccer manager and former footballer player
- Desiree Akhavan (born 1984)American filmmaker and screenwriter
People named Desiree with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Desiree is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Desiree is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.1×), Hawaii (2.6×), Arizona (2.1×), California (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1983
The most popular girls’ names the year Desiree peaked:
Desiree elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Desiree | 11,477 | — |
| France girls | Desiree +2 spellings | 6,365 | 119th |
| Spain girls | Desiree | 840 | 83rd |
| Switzerland girls | Désirée +2 spellings | 404 | 157th |
| England and Wales girls | Desiree | 278 | 1,211th |
| Norway girls | Desiree | 198 | 363rd |
| France boys | Desiree | 20 | 859th |
| Ireland girls | Desiree | 18 | 428th |
| Belgium girls | Désirée | 7 | 869th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Desiree | 3 | 331st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Desiree: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Désirée | 162 | 0.013% | 205th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Desiree | 99 | 0.008% | 113th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Desirée | 61 | 0.005% | 423rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Désirée | 12 | 0.003% | 455th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Desirée | 3 | 0.001% | 662nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Desirée | 35 | 0.054% | 59th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Désirée | 22 | 0.034% | 84th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Desiree | 8 | 0.012% | 110th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Desiree | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Desirée | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Desiree is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.10% of children were given it – 64 of them.
Desiree: rank by region
In 1995, Desiree was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Désirée | 685 | 5 |
In 2021, Desiree was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Desirée | 8 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Desiree among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Désirée | 3,127 | 6,229 |
| Finland girls | Desiree +4 spellings | 89 | 767 |
| the Netherlands boys | Désirée | — | 36 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Desiree lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 10,867 women called Desiree were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cádiz | Desiree | 552 | 0.861 | 175 |
| Sevilla | Desiree | 733 | 0.723 | 200 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Desiree | 388 | 0.700 | 200 |
| Huelva | Desiree | 190 | 0.700 | 211 |
| Málaga | Desiree | 640 | 0.698 | 196 |
| Almería | Desiree | 251 | 0.665 | 214 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Desiree against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.