Desi is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
At least in the US, the name Desi is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Desi each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Desi will meet someone with the same name. So, Desi is a very special name!
While Desi is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1956, the name Desi reached its highest popularity with #1,963 in our ranking of all first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their baby Desi. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and children in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Desi.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Desi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 73 babies were born with the name Desi. This puts the name in rank 4,364 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 4,528,793 newborns was named Desi that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Desi has been and remains marvelously unusual!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a particularly popular initial letter for first names. That’s because 6.3% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.
With four letters, the name Desi is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all first names that begin with the letter D, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Desi and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Desi, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Sun
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Desi
Desi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
S
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
S
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Desi sounds like this:
