Desire
8
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 14
-11%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Desire
Desire is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (8) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Desire reached its peak in 2018, when 14 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,977 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 8 represents 57% of the peak.
Across 22 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 139 girls have been officially registered with the name Desire in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 79 girls were registered with the name, starting from 4 in 2014 and ending at 8 in 2024.