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Dezi

The boy's name Dezi has been in the national records since 1959, with 657 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,399th. About 650 Dezis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Dezi boys named Dezi

Girls and boys called Dezi

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 308 girls and 349 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 23 to 17.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
657
Estimated living today
650
Median age today
11
Peak year
2023
Best rank
4,886th
Rank in 2025
5,399th
First recorded
1959
Girls / boys
308 / 349

How old the living Dezis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 657 babies given the name since 1959, about 650 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Dezi is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dezi is most concentrated in California (9.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular boys’ names the year Dezi peaked:

All the names of 2023

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Dezi against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.