Heraldry and the Desert Surname

Here is what public records tell us about the Desert last name. Between 1891 and 2000, 3,202 babies born in France were registered as Desert, with the most births in 1961–1970. Births ran at 112 in 1891–1900 and 314 in 1991–2000.

• The meaning of Desert is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

Arms associated with the name

Sharing the Desert name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. For the full story, order the Desert surname pack.