Comments on: Name of the Day: Desmond

By: Fetching Names: Borrowed from the Beatles | Appellation Mountain

Fetching Names: Borrowed from the Beatles | Appellation Mountain — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:03:26 +0000

[...] Desmond – The single “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is tremendous fun, and instantly recognizable, but the writing team quarreled over the lyrics and it was never performed live by the quartet. Desmond, however, has another musical link – it is said that Paul McCartney was referring to reggae great Desmond Dekker. [...]

By: Su

Su — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:39:47 +0000

oh yeah, and he was born only a month ago!

By: Su

Su — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:38:57 +0000

I am a South Korean American, and my husband is a Vietnamese American, and we fell in love with the name Desmond, hence named our son that. DH found the name being a car enthusiast (Desmond Regamaster Wheels), and yes, after watching Lost, we were set on the name. It has a WONDERFULLY classic, old-fashioned, yet hip and intelligent ring to the name. I love the uniqueness, yet familiarity of the name. And everyone I tell the name of our son to is delighted by it. I hope it doesn’t get TOO popular for the sake of keeping it special.

By: Desmond

Desmond — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:25:41 +0000

Ahh it does my heart a world of good to hear such words.

By: Dabizi

Dabizi — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:32:52 +0000

Our son will be born in around 1 month and we plan to name him Desmond, after Desmond Dekker, like Fink did. Two other famous Desmonds are South African cleric and activist Desmond Tutu and Desmond Hume, a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost. I liked the name from the beginning, but still spent hours and hours on baby name websites, but always returned back to Desmond.

By: Katharine

Katharine — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:39:28 +0000

Ahh Desmond I’ve always harboured a sneaking adoration of Desmond. Although I can’t put my finger on why, perhaps it’s his clunky old fashioned sound because Lord knows I’m a real sucker for that! Isn’t he lovely though? (sigh)

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:47:13 +0000

Norma Desmond – that’s a nice addition to the list! Thanks, Holey.

Fink, how nice to hear that Desmond is wearing well on a real boy. Interesting how our children find their own names, isn’t it? I knew a Zachariah called Z with a similar story – it just *was* his name.

By: Fink

Fink — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:12:14 +0000

My ex-wife and I named our son Desmond primarily after Desmond Dekker, but also because it’s a strong name that isn’t goofy. He is now 5 and I couldn’t imagine his name being anything else. However the original plan was to call him Dez, but he’s been called “D” for his whole life and it’s really stuck. Desmond is extremely rare where we live, in fact I had never met one in person until the odd chance I met one of his preschool friends fathers who was named, yeah, Desmond.

By: Holey

Holey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:49:24 +0000

You really unearthed a lot of interesting information! I’d like to add one more Desmond to the list: Norma Desmond, the former film star in Sunset Boulevard.

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:01:40 +0000

That reminds me – Jaime Presley has a Dezi James – named after Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III himself. (Nice find, Lola – what a name!) Apparently, Jaime’s fiance is Cuban, so they felt it was doubly appropriate.

Hmmm … all this talk of -mond/-mund as current makes me think I need to reconsider … let’s make Raymond NotD on October 14.

Now, as for Sigmund and the Sea Monsters? That’s something I haven’t thought about in ages! I’m putting it in my Netflix queue.