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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Desire

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#2,244

down −61 places

2025 births

82

down −5 births

All-time births

5,336

2% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2008
164 births
Best rank
#1,176
in 1992
First recorded
1955
#5,351 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2000
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
70 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2008164#1,439Peak
  2. 1992149#1,176
  3. 1991147#1,184
  4. 1999147#1,261
  5. 1995145#1,184

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,176 in 1992 · peak births 164 in 2008

Boys and girls

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

● 2% boys■ 98% girls

132 boys · 5,336 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 Desire has ranked, decade by decade

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