Désira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of désirer
Désira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 160Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 56Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)
≈700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Desira in FR France, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person singular past historic of désirer
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Désira counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Desira | 2 |
| US United States | 287 | 1 in 1.2M | 280 | — | 14 |
| FR France | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 56M | 18 | Desira | 80 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | 17 | — | 10 |
| XK Kosovo | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Thierry Désirab. 1959FRFrench politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Désira mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of désirer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Désira?
- Mondonomo estimates about 699 people named Désira in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled desira. After it come United States and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Désira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 287 people named Désira in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Désira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A9siraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Désira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.