Desilets
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de des Ilets, dérivé de Les Ilets; sans doute d’un toponyme français
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdɛsɪɫɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Desilets is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 317K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 200K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de des Ilets, dérivé de Les Ilets; sans doute d’un toponyme français
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Desilets 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Desilets | 85 |
| US United States | 1,050 | 1 in 317K | 1.1K | Desilets | 203 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Desilets | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 608K | — | Desilets | 12 |
| PL Poland | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Desilets | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Desilets | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)- Gédéon Désiletsb. 1890CACanadian painter (1890–1982)
- Antoine Desiletsb. 1927CACanadian photographer (1927-2019)
- Guy Désiletsb. 1928CAQuebec poet
- Denis Désiletsb. 1937CAchemical engineer, researcher and professor at Université Laval
- Rémy Désiletsb. 1952CACanadian politician
- Luc Desiletsb. 1958CACanadian politician (b. 1958)
- Christian Desîletsb. 1961CAuniversity professor
- Martin Désiletsb. 1969CACanadian artist (born 1969)
- Patrice Désiletsb. 1974CACanadian game designer
- Alexandre Désiletsb. 1975FRCanadian singer-songwriter
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,832 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #24,012 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,111 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Desilets?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɛsɪɫɪts/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Desilets mean?
- Recorded meaning: de des Ilets, dérivé de Les Ilets; sans doute d’un toponyme français
- In which country does Desilets have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Desilets in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled desilets.
- How common is the name Desilets?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,050 people named Desilets in 2010, about 1 in 317 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/desiletsThe 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, “Desilets”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.