Desalegn
given name · Amharic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Desalegn is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Amharic and , written in the Latin script.
- ETEthiopia1 in 859◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 219K
- SESweden1 in 249K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈48 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 63 ●
- 1 in 249K ◐
across 2 countries
recorded for this name
5.5K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #62 | 4,154 | 3.6K rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 30 |
| US United States | — | 677 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Desalegn | 63 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 155 | 226 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 41 | 203 rec. | 1 in 249K | 41 | Desalegn | 9 |
| AU Australia | — | 31 | 62 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 22 | 49 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 19 | 37 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 12 |
| IL Israel | — | 18 | 25 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 15 | 25 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 13 | 16 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | 9 | 13 rec. | — | — | Desalegn | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 7 | — | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Amharic2.7K49%
- 1.8K34%
- English3937%
- Arabic791%
- Swahili571%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Amharic | 2,661 | 49% |
| 1,830 | 34% | |
| English | 393 | 7% |
| Arabic | 79 | 1% |
| Swahili | 57 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 41 | #15,650 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #16,783 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #36,832 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #22,013 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #162,582 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 7 | #4,585 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #6,672 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #78,360 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #322,311 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Desalegn?
- We estimate roughly 48 people bear Desalegn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Desalegn have the most bearers?
- Desalegn is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled desalegn.
- How common is Desalegn compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Desalegn is the 62nd most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
- Is Desalegn a male or female name?
- Desalegn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/desalegnThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Desalegn” — the 62nd most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.