Dezydery
From Latin, meaning longed-for or desired. Barely 31 men in Poland carry it today, and no boys have been given it since the turn of the century.
Dezydery Pronunciation
Dezydery is pronounced de-zih-DE-rih (/dɛzɨˈdɛrɨ/).
What Dezydery means
Where Dezydery comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dezydery begins in Latin. The source word is desideratus, longed-for or desired, from the verb desiderare, to long for. That meaning survives in the Polish gloss, upragniony.
The Latin name Desiderius belonged to real people. One was the last king of the Lombards, deposed by Charlemagne in 774. Poland took the name later, through the Church and its Latin, and settled on the spelling Dezydery.
The same root branched across languages. It became Désiré in French and Desiderio in Italian. The feminine variant Dezyderia keeps the Polish form and the same origin.
It stays rare. On a Polish class register, a Dezydery sits apart from the Jakubs and Szymons. The spelling still points home, to desideratus, the desired one, upragniony.
When Dezydery celebrates name day
Dezydery appears 4 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 Dezydery
1 in 688587 men in Poland is named Dezydery. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7271 among male names.
Dezydery as a middle name
Dezydery is a first name for 31 men in Poland and a middle name for another 47, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1112th, between Czcibor (47) and Elijah (47).
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#1110 Borysław47
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#1111 Czcibor47
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#1112 Dezydery47
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#1113 Elijah47
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#1114 Farid47