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How popular is the name Desiree?
Births per year, rank history and how many Desirees are alive today.
Desiree (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2788th in 2025 and given to 9 babies. The name peaked in 1998, when 16 babies were given the name, the 1211th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2007, with 15 babies given the name that year.
The Desiree you are most likely to meet is around 22 years old - or else around 6: the name has two living generations. Half of all Desirees born in England and Wales are between 11 and 27, and there are at least 320 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Desiree - on average, only one in every 985 such rooms contains a Desiree.
How many babies are named Desiree each year?
Where does Desiree rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Desiree most popular?
Desiree peaked in 1998, when 16 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Desiree?
At least 320 people named Desiree born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Desiree?
Most living Desirees are between 11 and 27; the most common age is about 22. There is a second cluster around 6.
Is Desiree becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.