Desiderio

#5,921 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Desiderius

Desiderio has been given to 650 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #5,921 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Desiderio, 2025

1 in 221,000

Desiderio over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Desiderio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Desiderius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Desiderio means

Desiderio is a form of Desiderius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Desiderio → Desiderius. The family’s meaning is “the longed-for”, recorded in English with the source elements Dēsīderius.

Origin, language, and formation

Desiderio is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Desiderius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 650 boys were recorded with the name Desiderio between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,650 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,818 in 2020 to #5,921 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,533 in 2015 to #5,921 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Desiderio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 221,000; 15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 114,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #5,921; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 153,194 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Desiderio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Desiderio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Desiderios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Desiderio was born before 1980 — so the typical Desiderio is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 12.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 534; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 12.0% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Desiderio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +5,343; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3,897; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +6,612; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 3.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (15)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,650; 1910

Where Desiderio is used

Across 1910–2025, Desiderio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 316,455 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 100,000
2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Desiderio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Desiderio around the world

Where Desiderio ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1964–1964
#1,319
in 1964

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Desiderio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #5,921
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3,897
Best rank ever: #1,650; 1910
Peak year: 2025; 15 that year
First recorded: 1910
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 650
Count in 2025: 15

Names similar to Desiderio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Desiderio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Leander

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