Désire
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Désire is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Togo it is the 42nd most common given name.
- BIBurundi≈1 in 980(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 1.4Kfew records
- CMCameroon≈1 in 2K
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
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 976 (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Burundi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Desire in US United States, CM Cameroon, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 1 more and Désiré in TG Togo.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Désire 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 | #335 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 10 | Desire | 17 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Desire | 34 |
| BI Burundi | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 976 | 14 | — | 7 |
| CM Cameroon | #74 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Desire | 23 |
| US United States | — | 5,162 | 1 in 64K | 4.8K | Desire | 157 |
| TG Togo | #42 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 1 | Désiré | 10 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 19 | — | 17 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Désire a male or female name?
- Désire is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Désire?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Désire in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled desire. After it come Côte d’Ivoire, Burundi, Cameroon and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Désire?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,162 people named Désire in 2020, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Désire compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Désire is the 335th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Désire?
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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%A9sireThe 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, “Désire” — ranked 48th in Congo - Kinshasa (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.