Desiderius as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Desiderius

What is the meaning of the name Desiderius ?

The baby name Desiderius is a Male name , 5 syllables long and is pronounced dez-ih-DEER-ee-uhs (IPA: /ˌdɛzɪˈdɪəriəs/).

Desiderius is Latin in Origin.

Desiderius is a Latin masculine name from desiderium “longing, desire,” ultimately from desiderare “to long for.” It conveys the favorable sense “the desired one” or “longed-for child,” paralleling the Latin byname Desideratus and related French Désiré.

Adopted into Christian usage in Late Antiquity and the early medieval West, it was borne by several bishops and martyrs - especially St. Desiderius (Didier) of Vienne and of Cahors - and by Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards in the 8th century. Renaissance humanists revived learned Latin forms; the famed scholar Desiderius Erasmus helped keep the name visible in intellectual circles. International variants include Didier (French), Desiderio (Italian, Spanish), Desidério (Portuguese), Dezydery (Polish), Dezider (Slovak; also rare in Czech), Dezideriu (Romanian), and Dezső (Hungarian). In English and German it survives mainly in the scholarly or ecclesiastical form Desiderius, with rare modern use.

⚙ Desiderius is seldom given. In all, it turns up just 15 times, across 3 countries.