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How popular is “Desire” in the USA?

Number of people named “Desire” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Desire” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Desire” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Desire” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Desire” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Desire” by birth year

This chart shows how “Desire” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 100%
1963 15 0.00000379 15 100%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 100%
1969 15 0.000004316 15 100%
1970 21 0.000005823 21 100%
1971 17 0.000004953 17 100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 100%
1973 16 0.000005303 16 100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 100%
1976 28 0.000009228 28 100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 100%
1978 50 0.000015754 50 100%
1979 45 0.000013526 45 100%
1980 47 0.000013645 47 100%
1981 54 0.00001561 54 100%
1982 59 0.000016819 59 100%
1983 86 0.000024832 86 100%
1984 74 0.000021211 74 100%
1985 90 0.000025216 90 100%
1986 88 0.000024739 88 100%
1987 108 0.000029953 108 100%
1988 99 0.000026793 99 100%
1989 89 0.00002315 89 100%
1990 115 0.000029096 115 100%
1991 147 0.000037738 147 100%
1992 149 0.000038789 149 100%
1993 136 0.000036072 136 100%
1994 129 0.000034699 129 100%
1995 145 0.000039594 145 100%
1996 117 0.000032079 117 100%
1997 124 0.0000342 124 100%
1998 125 0.000033984 125 100%
1999 147 0.000039796 147 100%
2000 133 0.000035186 133 100%
2001 137 0.000036598 137 100%
2002 133 0.000035578 133 100%
2003 119 0.000031297 119 100%
2004 113 0.000029574 113 100%
2005 129 0.000033551 129 100%
2006 133 0.000033618 133 100%
2007 131 0.000032769 126 5 92%
2008 164 0.000041723 164 100%
2009 145 0.000037956 145 100%
2010 107 0.000028952 101 6 89%
2011 105 0.000028706 105 100%
2012 91 0.000024881 91 100%
2013 86 0.00002359 86 100%
2014 73 0.000019696 73 100%
2015 70 0.000018914 70 100%
2016 114 0.000031074 105 9 84%
2017 114 0.000031877 104 10 82%
2018 102 0.000029011 95 7 86%
2019 89 0.000025642 84 5 89%
2020 101 0.000030234 90 11 78%
2021 104 0.000030697 94 10 81%
2022 103 0.000030445 94 9 83%
2023 106 0.000032013 92 14 74%
2024 99 0.000029743 86 13 74%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Desire:

  1. Desirae
  2. Desiraee
  3. Desirai
  4. Desiray
  5. Desiraye
  6. Desire (this page)
  7. Desirea
  8. Desireah
  9. Desiree
  10. Desirey
  11. Desiri