Dezire
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- dih-ZYER
- Origin
- French
- US rank, 2025
- #4,545 for girls
Dezire is a girls' name of French origin, meaning “desired”. In 2025 it ranked 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).
What does Dezire mean?
French: respelling of Désirée or of the English word desire
“desired”
Related to the French name Désirée 'desired', from Latin desiderata.
Is Dezire a girl's or a boy's name?
Dezire is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls and 9 boys in the US.
How popular is Dezire in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 30 about 1 in 54,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Dezire, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,261st. Its busiest year was 2011, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989. 9 boys were also named Dezire in 2025 (8,239th for boys).
2025 had more girls named Dezire than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Dezire in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 77% of the babies named Dezire in the US were girls.
Dezire in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,169 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,261 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,436 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,852 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,849 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,023 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,753 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,781 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,131 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,106 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,188 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,088 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,329 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,794 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,457 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,230 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,936 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,309 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,224 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,387 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,761 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
Names like Dezire
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Demi, Esme, Dafne, Nyomi, Zuri, Brielle, Brynlee, Teagan, Elle, Aoife, Remi, Maeve
Names related to Dezire
More French names
Eleanor, Beau, Darcie, Darcy, Genevieve, Amy, Esmae, Arleth, Russell, Monty, Mallory, Percy, Lacey, Belle, Quincy, Bruce
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, “Dezire: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dezire, updated 20 October 2026.