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Desiree vs Desma

American parents have registered 83,761 Desirees since 1880, against 445 Desmas. Desiree is still ahead, with 151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Desiree against Desma, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Desiree Desma

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 108 years in which either name was published, Desiree for 99 years and Desma for 9 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Desiree Desma
Total US births 83,761445
Most in one year 2,92517
Babies in 2025 151under 5
Estimated living today 80,000330
Median age today 3551
Peak year 19831968
Best rank 94th girls3,169th girls
Rank in 2025 1,427thunranked
First recorded 19101915
Girls / boys 83,563 / 198445 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Desmas alive today are over 51; half the Desirees are over 35. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Desiree and Desma.