Desai
- Gender
- Boy
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Desai is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
Is Desai a girl's or a boy's name?
Desai is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Desai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,799th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Desai, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 2009.
2025 had the most boys named Desai of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Desai in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Desai in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
Names like Desai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Jasai, August, Henry, Moses, Azai, Kasai, Dutton, Otto, Kenai, Fletcher, Charlie, Jasper
Names related to Desai
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Desai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/desai, updated 20 October 2026.