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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Des

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

11

peak year 1971

More common than

25%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1971
6 births
Best rank
#4,126
in 1957
First recorded
1957
#4,126 that year
Last recorded
1971
no later published record
Average birth year
1965
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
2 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19716#4,532Peak
  2. 19575#4,126

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #4,126 in 1957 · peak births 6 in 1971

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 69% boys■ 31% girls

11 boys · 5 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Des has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.