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plural Desmonds
A surname from Irish, anglicised from Ó Deasmhumhnaigh, meaning "a man from South Munster". examples
A male given name transferred from the surname; popular in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. quotations examples
I call him Bradford because it makes me feel like I'm in a soap opera. That's what they name men on soap operas. Bradford and Desmond and Elliott and Royce.
1988, K. C. Constantine, Joey's Case, page 132