Dezire
Feminine · “desired”
Dezire is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 962 girls against 28 boys since 1880.
Dezire respells Desiree, and the French name means the awaited one — it was given to a child who had been longed for.
How old is the name Dezire?
Dezire first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Dezire alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,000 people named Dezire are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dezire most popular?
Dezire peaked in 2011, reaching #3132 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 1,414 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dezire
Ours, offered as ours. Desiderare, to desire, is built on the word for a star and seems to have begun as an augur's term — to wait for what the stars will give, and by extension to miss something absent. Its opposite, considerare, is also star-work: to examine the stars closely. So two ordinary English words, desire and consider, are both fossils of Roman men standing in a field at night looking up.
Meaning
desired, longed for
From Latin desideratum, a thing wished for, through French Désirée; the Latin verb desiderare is built on sidus, a star, and originally meant to await what the stars bring. The z is a modern respelling of the s.
Pronouncing Dezire
dez-ih-RAY
Three syllables with the stress on the last. Some families say deh-ZEER.
Nicknames for Dezire
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 201153 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3132reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- +36.4%30 in 2025, from 22
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.
Dezire in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Désirée in French — related form
- Desiree in English — spelling variant
- Deseada in Spanish — related form
Dezires among us
people named Dezire are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Dezire
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dezire
- #4546
- Dezire on the 2025 chart
- #681
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dezire went to 30 girls in 2025, but Desiree, Desire and Deziree and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 286, which makes it the 681st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,865 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 5,620 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Dezire 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 Faithe test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dezire's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Faithe climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Faithe's path sketches the road Dezire is walking now.
Dezire 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
Where Dezire is headed
Dezire should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Dezire beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dezire in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with an unexpectedly beautiful root behind it.
- Dez and Dezi are both plain short forms in current use.
- Six letters carrying three syllables, quick to write.
- The pronunciation is genuinely unsettled between two readings.
- Desiree is the standard spelling and will be written for her.
- The English word desire is the first association for most readers.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dezires are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Dezire are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dezire?
- Dezire is one of 6 recorded spellings. Desiree is the more common one — 151 births in 2025 against 30 for Dezire.
- How popular is the name Dezire in 2025?
- Dezire ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dezire?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Dezire — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dezire with classmates?
- Dezire will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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