The name Desmond is of Gaelic origin, and means from south Munster.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Desmond has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Desmond
Use of the Name Desmond for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
20,836
20,596
16,236
6,651
2,995
1,083
532
The table below indicates the number of times the name Desmond has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Desmond first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1904, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Desmond
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1904
901
8
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
834
67
1923
952
52
1924
1925
1926
983
49
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
923
64
1955
936
64
1956
1957
1958
1959
984
61
1960
833
83
1961
794
92
1962
768
99
1963
726
116
1964
666
134
1965
670
122
1966
671
122
1967
618
147
1968
666
127
1969
687
131
1970
630
165
1971
534
224
1972
501
245
1973
466
280
1974
446
313
1975
519
240
1976
497
257
1977
408
369
1978
331
527
1979
383
442
1980
347
526
1981
423
386
1982
454
354
1983
437
356
1984
429
375
1985
303
676
1986
301
677
1987
340
592
1988
316
691
1989
315
759
1990
287
871
1991
308
835
1992
265
1,066
1993
336
751
1994
359
670
1995
360
667
1996
375
625
1997
308
884
1998
352
740
1999
352
740
2000
374
697
2001
397
635
2002
425
580
2003
455
551
2004
467
532
Totals:
20,836
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Desmond as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Desmond appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 52 times during the last 125 years.