Dezirae
Feminine · “French desiree”
Desiree Clary was engaged to Napoleon Bonaparte, who left her for Josephine. She married one of his marshals instead, and when Sweden needed a new royal house in 1810 the marshal was elected crown prince. Her descendants sit on the Swedish throne today.
How old is the name Dezirae?
Dezirae first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Dezirae alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 2,000 people named Dezirae are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dezirae most popular?
Dezirae peaked in 2001, reaching #1872 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 7,585 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From desiderare to Dezirae
The story of Dezirae
Bernardine Eugenie Desiree Clary was the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant. Napoleon proposed to her in 1795 and abandoned the engagement within months for Josephine de Beauharnais. Her sister married Napoleon's brother Joseph, and Desiree herself married Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a general who became one of Napoleon's marshals. In 1810 the Swedish Riksdag, needing an heir for the childless Charles XIII, elected Bernadotte. He became Charles XIV John, Desiree became Queen Desideria, and the House of Bernadotte has reigned in Sweden ever since. She disliked Stockholm and spent years back in Paris before finally settling there. The current Swedish king is her direct descendant, which makes a Marseille merchant's daughter jilted by Napoleon the ancestress of a European monarchy.
Meaning
French desiree, desired
Dezirae is a respelling of Desiree, the French feminine past participle of desirer, to desire, from Latin desiderare. It was used by early Christians in the Latin form Desiderata for a longed-for child. The z and the -ae ending are American respellings. The peak is 2001.
How the name formed
- desiderare
- Desiree
- Dezirae
Related forms: Desiree · Desiderata · Desideria
Pronouncing Dezirae
dez-ih-RAY
Three syllables, stress on the third. French says day-zee-RAY. The -ae spelling writes the same final sound as the French accented e.
Nicknames for Dezirae
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 200695 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1872reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- −47.4%10 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dezirae in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Desiree in French — spelling variant
- Desiderata in Latin — related form
- Desideria in Swedish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Deziraes among us
people named Dezirae are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Dezirae
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dezirae
- #9457
- Dezirae on the 2025 chart
- #886
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dezirae went to 10 girls in 2025, but Desirae is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 74, which makes it the 886th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,571 places above the chart.
- Desirae64
- Dezirae10
About 1 girl in 21,720 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Dezirae itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Mescal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dezirae's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mescal climbed just as high around 1924, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mescal's path sketches the road Dezirae is walking now.
Dezirae sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Dezirae beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dezirae in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Dezi and Rae are both usable short forms.
- The stressed ending gives it a firm final beat.
- The meaning is clear and warm.
- Desiree is the standard spelling.
- The z and -ae both read as respellings.
- It will be spelled out on introduction.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deziraes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Dezirae are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dezirae?
- Dezirae is one of 2 recorded spellings. Desirae is the more common one — 64 births in 2025 against 10 for Dezirae.
- How popular is the name Dezirae in 2025?
- Dezirae ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dezirae?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Dezirae — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dezirae with classmates?
- Dezirae will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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