Desirae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DEZ-ih-ray
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #2,691 for girls
Desirae is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “desired”. In 2025 it ranked 2,691st for girls in the US (64 babies).
What does Desirae mean?
Latin: spelling of Désirée, the French form of Latin Desiderata
“desired”
Désirée Clary, once engaged to Napoleon, became Queen of Sweden and Norway as wife of Charles XIV John.
Is Desirae a girl's or a boy's name?
Desirae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 64 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Desirae in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,691among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 64about 1 in 25,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 64 girls in the US were named Desirae, making it the 2,691st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,416th. Its busiest year was 1993, with 540 girls. It first appears in the records in 1955.
Half of all the girls named Desirae in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 83 girls in the US were given Desirae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,925, up from #2,691 for this spelling alone.
Desirae in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,691 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,857 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,225 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,554 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,533 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,416 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,249 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,113 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,401 |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,068 |
| 2015 | 132 | #1,622 |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,818 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,457 |
| 2012 | 163 | #1,408 |
| 2011 | 214 | #1,144 |
| 2010 | 249 | #1,008 |
| 2009 | 250 | #1,040 |
| 2008 | 272 | #981 |
| 2007 | 292 | #926 |
| 2006 | 303 | #875 |
| 2005 | 332 | #782 |
| 2004 | 295 | #835 |
| 2003 | 320 | #775 |
| 2002 | 359 | #698 |
| 2001 | 388 | #650 |
| 2000 | 414 | #613 |
| 1999 | 343 | #666 |
| 1998 | 391 | #615 |
| 1997 | 400 | #581 |
| 1996 | 451 | #524 |
| 1995 | 466 | #519 |
| 1994 | 497 | #500 |
| 1993 | 540 | #469 |
| 1992 | 517 | #477 |
| 1991 | 500 | #483 |
| 1990 | 508 | #480 |
| 1989 | 433 | #533 |
| 1988 | 352 | #580 |
| 1987 | 347 | #572 |
| 1986 | 273 | #670 |
| 1985 | 333 | #586 |
| 1984 | 213 | #758 |
| 1983 | 260 | #661 |
| 1982 | 242 | #717 |
| 1981 | 167 | #895 |
| 1980 | 204 | #798 |
| 1979 | 162 | #912 |
| 1978 | 181 | #826 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,801 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,931 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,672 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,772 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,121 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,062 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,941 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,856 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,773 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,778 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,483 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,739 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,951 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,378 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,175 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,532 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,308 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,167 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,299 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,889 |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,951 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,826 |
Nicknames for Desirae
- Dez 7 boys in the US in 2025
Names like Desirae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Desirae
Names related to Desirae
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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, “Desirae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/desirae, updated 20 October 2026.