I really like the nickname [name_u]Desi[/name_u]/[name_m]Dezi[/name_m], but I can only think of [name_m]Desmond[/name_m] as a potential full name.
Any suggestions on other names that you could get the nickname from?
Archimedes – pondering
[name_m]Desiderio[/name_m] – longing
Desierto – wild
Desimir – great longing
[name_m]Deston[/name_m] – destined
Diomedes – cunning as [name_m]Zeus[/name_m] (dee-oh-mee-dees)
Modesto – modesty
[name_m]Rhodes[/name_m] – from [name_m]Rhodes[/name_m], field of roses
Mendez – cleverness
Valdez – from Valdez
Well, the most famous [name_u]Desi[/name_u]- [name_u]Desi[/name_u] Arnaz- was [name_m]Desiderio[/name_m]
My person fave for [name_m]Dez[/name_m]/[name_u]Desi[/name_u] is [name_u]Destry[/name_u]
[name_m]Destin[/name_m]
[name_u]Addison[/name_u]
[name_m]Edison[/name_m]
[name_m]Landis[/name_m]
[name_f]Ardis[/name_f]
[name_m]Odis[/name_m]/[name_m]Otis[/name_m]
[name_u]Destry[/name_u] is the only other name I can add. Personally I think [name_m]Desmond[/name_m] is a great name and [name_u]Desi[/name_u] would be a wonderful nn.
I don’t have anything to add, dantea and nat came up with some seriously impressive suggestions already, and collmcc covered the last one I could think of. [name_m]Desmond[/name_m] is my favorite though.
Oh! I really like Desimir. Achimedes would be a really cool middle name. I don’t think I could use it as a first, but it has middle name potential. [name_m]Desiderio[/name_m] also.
You know I never even knew that about [name_u]Desi[/name_u] Arnaz. I always thought he was just [name_u]Desi[/name_u].
Thank you both!
I love [name_m]Desiderio[/name_m].
I once named a character ‘Dezzian’ which I really like but I might have made it up 
Any more suggestions?
I second Archimedes and [name_m]Desiderio[/name_m].
Aristides
Eudes
[name_m]Vladislav[/name_m]
[name_m]How[/name_m] is Aristides pronounced?
It’s ancient Greek so – ah-RIS-tee-dees. (the last two parts, tee-dees is fast). It means “the best kind” and was 5th-century BC Athenian statesman Aristides the [name_m]Just[/name_m], who was renowned for his integrity. And a saint. 