Dezyderiusz
Only about 130 living Poles carry it, a name most people here will never meet in person. It comes from Latin, meaning desire or longing.
Dezyderiusz Pronunciation
Dezyderiusz is pronounced de-zih-DER-yoosh (/dɛzɨˈdɛrjuʂ/).
What Dezyderiusz means
Where Dezyderiusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dezyderiusz comes straight from Latin. Behind it sits the noun desiderium, desire and longing, drawn from the verb desiderare, to long for what is absent. A boy given this name is given an old wish.
The most famous bearer used the Latin spelling. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam signed his books that way, and readers across Europe learned the name from him. Polish trimmed the Latin ending and produced the variant Dezydery, which fits more easily on an official form at the urząd.
The full form stays rare.
Read it off a school register and heads turn, because few classes hold a Dezyderiusz. The meaning stays legible under the long spelling. It is pragnienie, upragniony, desire and the thing desired.
When Dezyderiusz celebrates name day
Dezyderiusz appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 11 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Dezyderiusz
1 in 161714 men in Poland is named Dezyderiusz. 132 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2888 among male names.
Dezyderiusz as a middle name
Dezyderiusz is a first name for 132 men in Poland and a middle name for another 148, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 576th, between Minh (149) and Donald (148).
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#574 Douglas149
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#575 Minh149
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#576 Dezyderiusz148
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#577 Donald148
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#578 Faustyn148