Desiderata
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: plural of desideratum
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌdeɪzɪdɝˈɑtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Desiderata is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- IDIndonesia
- ITItaly
- PHPhilippines
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of desideratum
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Desiderata is read(measured from records)
Desiderata is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
plural of desideratum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish15%
plural of desiderátum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Desiderata in Indonesian.
- Italian5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Desiderata in Italian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Desiderata is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, inflection of dēsīderātus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, desideratum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, vēlmes; grāmatas, priekšmeti, kas nepieciešami kādas bibliotēkas, kolekcijas u. tml. papildināšanai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Desiderata of the Lombardsb. 754ITsecond wife of Charlemagne, one of four daughters of Desiderius, king of the Lombards
- Marianne Aurnhammer v. Aurnsteinb. 1853ATnot in their usual nameAustrian writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 24 | #13,201 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13 | #24,870 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Desiderata mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of desideratum Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Desiderata?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌdeɪzɪdɝˈɑtə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Desiderata a male or female name?
- Desiderata is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Desiderata?
- In the etymology graph, Desiree, Desirae and Désirée are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Desiderata have the most bearers?
- Desiderata is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/desiderataThe 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, “Desiderata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.