Desmond
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#376
down −8 places
2025 births
839
down −52 births
All-time births
40,031
2% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1992
- 1,069 births
- Best rank
- #264
- in 1992
- First recorded
- 1904
- #900 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1999
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 118 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19921,069#264Peak
- 20171,047#327
- 20141,035#330
- 20181,030#324
- 2013984#329
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #264 in 1992 · peak births 1,069 in 1992
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
40,031 boys · 233 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 Desmond has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.