Desmond

Boy · Irish

Desmond

Say it: DEZ-mund

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Meaning

From the Irish place and family name Deasmhumhain 'South Munster'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Popular now

In the United States

35,880 babies given this name since 1904
At its height in 2018, about 1 in 1,800 boys
847 babies in 2020

Through the ages

The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

Caribbean Irish English

The family of the name

Irish	Deasmhumhain

Famous bearers

Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska singer

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Where this comes from

National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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