Group by with Order Desc in MySQL

i recently worked on auto complete records task. They expect to show auto complete results must be unique and recent records. i use following simple query with my filter.
For example,

we have the following table – items

id | name | price
1 | a | 20
2 | b | 25
3 | c | 20
4 | a | 30
5 | c | 21

Here we need latest items group by name. i use the following query.

SELECT *
FROM `items`
GROUP BY name
ORDER BY id DESC

id | name | price
3 | c | 20
2 | b | 25
1 | a | 20

Normally MySQL ordered as ascending by primary key while grouping. So we should order before grouping.

SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM `items`
ORDER BY id DESC
) AS `items`
GROUP BY `items`.name
id | name | price
4 | a | 30
2 | b | 25
5 | c | 21