Desta
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- DES-tah
- Origin
- Amharic
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Desta is a boys' name of Amharic origin, meaning “joy, happiness”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Desta mean?
Amharic: Amharic desta 'joy'
“joy, happiness”
An Amharic word meaning joy or happiness, used as a given name in Ethiopia.
Is Desta a girl's or a boy's name?
Desta is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Desta in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Desta, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. It first appears in the records in 2025.
Names like Desta
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Luca, Ezra, Asa, Dara, Isa, Luis, Arda, Daniel, David, Ira, Angel, Diego
More Amharic names
Amare, Aryam, Gelila, Mahelet, Nolawi, Haset, Tafari, Bruk, Leul, Naod, Kidus, Melat, Haile, Menelik, Nuhamin, Meklit
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Desta: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/desta, updated 20 October 2026.