Desi
Recorded 1948–2025 · United States
Desi was most popular in 1970, when 80 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,152 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,152, with 57 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,395 people named Desi.
Desi over time
How old is the name Desi?
Desi first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1948, which makes it about 77 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 77 of the 78 years since.
How many people are named Desi?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,395 American births named Desi between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,114 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Desi in 2025?
57 American babies were named Desi in 2025, ranking #5,152 that year.
Is Desi getting more or less popular?
Desi is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 65 births a year, against 39 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +64% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Desi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Desi is a unisex name — 30.9% of the 3,395 Americans given it were girls and 69.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 2025 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 55% girls and 45% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Desi?
Roughly 3,114 Americans named Desi are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 39 years old, and half are between 16 and 55. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Desi is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org