Désirée Forename
Approximately 4,146 people bear this name
Désirée Forename Definition:
A female name. French désirée from Latin desiderata ‘desired’. Désirée is nowadays sometimes used as a christian name in England, but only as a loan from the French and pronounced and accented in French manner. In the 13th and 14th C, however, Desiderata and Desirata occur from time to time in (Latin) records, and probably represent a latinization of some English form of the name which has not survived on record.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,902 | 1:8,886 | 1,147 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 679 | 1:12,096 | 1,088 |
| Togo | - | 412 | 1:17,571 | 2,429 |
| Germany | 100% | 197 | 1:490,751 | 5,233 |
| Sweden | 100% | 188 | 1:52,436 | 2,731 |
| Belgium | 100% | 187 | 1:61,444 | 2,710 |
| South Africa | 100% | 130 | 1:419,482 | 21,204 |
| Italy | 100% | 68 | 1:897,972 | 8,036 |
| Congo | 87% | 66 | 1:75,897 | 5,277 |
| France | 100% | 59 | 1:1,126,616 | 8,388 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 38 | 1:607,261 | 21,231 |
| Spain | - | 32 | 1:1,454,061 | 10,156 |
| Portugal | - | 28 | 1:371,817 | 6,212 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 23 | 1:24,524 | 1,332 |
| Canada | - | 18 | 1:1,840,743 | 28,401 |
| Denmark | - | 16 | 1:353,094 | 6,331 |
| Cameroon | - | 15 | 1:1,440,700 | 34,118 |
| Austria | 100% | 11 | 1:774,018 | 6,072 |
| Brazil | - | 11 | 1:19,476,014 | 191,600 |
| Norway | 100% | 8 | 1:641,541 | 10,538 |
| Benin | 100% | 7 | 1:1,510,835 | 32,846 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 6 | 1:216,297 | 4,288 |
| Monaco | 100% | 5 | 1:7,693 | 1,062 |
| Mexico | - | 5 | 1:24,828,885 | 53,479 |
| Burkina Faso | - | 5 | 1:3,675,894 | 52,713 |
| French Polynesia | - | 4 | 1:69,476 | 2,352 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 4 | 1:9,464 | 618 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Guinea | 100% | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Finland | 100% | 2 | 1:2,741,592 | 19,235 |
| Argentina | - | 1 | 1:42,773,243 | 43,333 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 1 | 1:1,361,419 | 34,512 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1 | 1:30,201,893 | 231,239 |
| Peru | - | 1 | 1:31,791,454 | 110,866 |
| New Caledonia | - | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| DR Congo | - | 1 | 1:73,827,605 | 146,761 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1 | 1:10,431,270 | 30,761 |
| Czechia | - | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Costa Rica | - | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Chile | - | 1 | 1:17,607,208 | 48,996 |
The alternate forms: Desirée (3,992), Désiree (141), Désireé (36), Désirèe (5), Désiréé (5), Dèsirée (4), Desiree (174,724), Desireé (2,080), Desirèe (185), Desireë (137), Desireè (24), Desiréé (20), Dèsirèe (18), Desirëe (17), Desireê (3), Desirêe (3), Desírée (2), Desirėe (1), Dèsireè (1) & Desirèè (1) are calculated separately.
Désirée Forename Meaning
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A female name. French désirée from Latin desiderata ‘desired’. Désirée is nowadays sometimes used as a christian name in England, but only as a loan from the French and pronounced and accented in French manner. In the 13th and 14th C, however, Desiderata and Desirata occur from time to time in (Latin) records, and probably represent a latinization of some English form of the name which has not survived on record.
Desirata, Desiderata Curia Regis Rolls 1210-12, Feudal Aids 1302, 1316.
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