Dezire
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 25 babies a year in the US.
Dezire by the numbers
Dezire was given to 25 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 52 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Dezire
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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