Desire
A girls’ name of French origin, meaning desired or wished for.
Babies a year
113
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3035
8 babies
Desire by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Desire. In the US, 113 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 164 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Desire. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Desireedesired or wished for271 in the US (2017)
- Desiraedesired; variant spelling of Desiree75 in the US (2017)
- Desireadesired one; respelling of desiree5 in the US (2017)
- Dezire25 in the US (2017)
- Denisefollower of Dionysus; feminine form of Denis215 in the US (2017)
- Devinedivine; variant of Divine30 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Desire
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