Desh

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled দেশ in BD Bangladesh.

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.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Desh is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name165 records spelled Desh3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, India

  Also written Dèsh

• Portuguese given name93 records spelled Desh2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Désh

• Russian surname58 records spelled Desh10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Деш, Дешь, Desch, Дёш, Дэшь

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Desh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In rom, Anglicized form of deś (“ten”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 183 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Desh?

We estimate roughly 8 people bear Desh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.

In which country does Desh have the most bearers?

Desh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled desh.

How common is Desh compared with other names?

In Bermuda, Desh is the 879th most common given name of 1,057 given names recorded there.

Is Desh a male or female name?

Desh 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.