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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Latin: Crave
  2. French: Hoped for
  3. Spanish: Desire

First name variations: Desi, Desire, Desideria, Desea, Desee, Desey, Desie, Désir, Desira, Desy, Dezi, Dezia, Dezzia, Dezzie, Desira, Desirah, Desirai, Desireah, Désirée, Desirey, Desray, Desree, Dessie, Dessirae, Dessire, Dessiree, Desyrae, Desyrai, Desyray, Desiree, Desi, Desideryo

Last name origin & meaning:

Italian: from the medieval personal name Desiderio, from Latin Desiderius, a derivative of desiderium ‘desire’, ‘longing’, given to a longed-for son or as a devotional name, an expression of the Christian’s longing for God.