Desirée
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Desirée är en fransk form av → Desideria
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/desiɾee/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Desirée is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 995(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.2K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Desirée itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 509 (measured from records)
- 1 in 995 (inferred from the name graph)
69,937 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Desiree in US United States, VE Venezuela, PH Philippines and 4 more.
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)Desirée är en fransk form av → Desideria. I den rikssvenska almanackan 23 maj, efter Karl xiv Johans hustrus namn före tronbestigningen. En av Hagaprinsessorna (f. 1938), nuvarande kungens systrar, bär namnet Desirée.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Desirée 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #619 | 69,937 | 1 in 4.8K | 70K | Desiree | 509 |
| PH Philippines | #574 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Desiree | 130 |
| ZA South Africa | #542 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Desiree | 94 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Desiree | 60 |
| VE Venezuela | #205 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Desiree | 63 |
| NL Netherlands | #302 | 6,265 | 1 in 2.8K | 6.2K | Desiree | 93 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,696 | 1 in 2.2K | 4.7K | Desiree | 55 |
| GY Guyana | — | 754 | 1 in 995 | 754 | — | 7 |
69,937 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Desirée is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French (now also used in the English-speaking world): from Latin Desider ta ‘desired’. This name was given by early Christians to a longed-for child, but the French form is now often taken as suggesting that the bearer will grow up into a desirable woman.
as a word
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)- Desirée Gayb. 1810FRFrench feminist, editor
- Caroline Krookb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish bishop
- Lucie Arnazb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Solveig Gräsbeckb. 1966FInot in their usual nameFinnish pianist and singer
- Tatiana von Fürstenbergb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Desirée Ndjambob. 1976ESSpanish journalist and presenter
- Desirée Rancatoreb. 1977ITItalian operatic soprano
- Desirée Noferinib. 1987ITItalian actress
- Isabella Löwengripb. 1990SEnot in their usual nameSwedish blogger
- Desirée Cordero Ferrerb. 1993ESSpanish model
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5K | #413 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.7K | #633 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Desirée?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /desiɾee/; in Portuguese /deziʁɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Desirée a male or female name?
- Desirée is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Finland (DVV) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik).
- What does the name Desirée mean?
- Recorded meaning: Desirée är en fransk form av → Desideria.
- In which country does Desirée have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 70 thousand people named Desirée, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled desiree.
- Where is Desirée most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Desirée is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 995 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Desirée?
- In the United States, the national register counted 69,937 people named Desirée in 2020, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Desirée compared with other names?
- In the United States, Desirée is the 619th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/desir%C3%A9eThe 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, “Desirée” — the 619th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.