Desislava
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Desislava is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria1 in 238as Десислава(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 70K
- ATAustria≈1 in 85K
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 Desislava 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.
- Bulgaria (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
29,282 named Десислава, 2018
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Десислава in RU Russia and Dessislava in AO Angola.
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.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Desislava 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #25 | 29,282as Десислава | 1 in 238 | 29K | Desislava | 140 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Desislava | 77 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Десислава | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 422 | 1 in 119K | 422 | Desislava | 49 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Dessislava | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Desislava | 15 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 2 | Desislava | 27 |
| IS Iceland | — | 5 | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
29,282 people counted by NSI — most common given names (population), 2018, counting the spelling десислава. 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: NSI — most common given names (population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Desislava 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.
In Russian, "ten glories." Fem of Desislav.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Desislava of Bulgariab. 1301BGBulgarian princess
- Desislava Radevab. 1969BGBulgarian first lady
- Desislava Dimitrovab. 1972BGBulgarian sprinter
- Desislava Topalovab. 1978BGBulgarian tennis player
- Desi Slavab. 1979BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Desislava Petrovab. 1980BGBulgarian activist
- Дженаb. 1985BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Desislava Nikolovab. 1991BGBulgarian volleyball player
- Desislava Stoyanovab. 1992BGBulgarian biathlete
- Dessislava Zidarovanot in their usual nameactress
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2016 | 29K | #8 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 29K | #7 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 422 | #5,131 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 421 | #2,393 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 2 | #1,868 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #2,282 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2016 | 1 | #2,341 |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
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
- Is Desislava a male or female name?
- Desislava 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 Desislava?
- In the etymology graph, Dessislava is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Desislava have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Десислава, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Desislava most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Desislava is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Desislava?
- In Spain, the national register counted 422 people named Desislava, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
- How common is Desislava compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Desislava is the 25th most common given name of 22,906 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/desislavaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Desislava” — the 25th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.