Dessislava
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dessislava 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)
- AOAngola≈1 in 89K
- ISIceland1 in 70Kas Desislava
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 Dessislava 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 89K (inferred from the name graph)
29,282 named Десислава, 2018
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Desislava in BG Bulgaria, DE Germany, ES Spain and 2 more and Десислава in RU Russia.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dessislava 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 | — | 422as Desislava | 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 | — | 5as Desislava | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dessislava Roussanovab. 1901Bulgarian journalist
- Desislava Radevab. 1969BGBulgarian first lady
- Desi Slavab. 1979BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Desib. 1979BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Дженаb. 1985BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Dessislava Mladenovab. 1988BGBulgarian tennis player
- Dessislava Eva Dupuyb. 1993USAmerican association football (soccer) player
- Desislava Angelovab. 1997BGBulgarian rower (born 1997)
- Dessitab. 2001BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Dessislava Zidarovaactress
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #52,238 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #26,293 |
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 Dessislava a male or female name?
- Dessislava 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 Dessislava?
- In the etymology graph, Desislava is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dessislava have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Десислава, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dessislava?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted 29,282 people named Десислава in 2018, about 1 in 238 residents.
- How common is Dessislava compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Dessislava is the 25th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dessislava?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dessislavaThe 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, “Dessislava” — the 25th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.