Desmona
“The pious one,” a contraction of Desdemona, which see.
Desmond
An Irish place name, Desmond means from South Munster.
Desdemona
“She who fears the gods,” from the Greek deisidaimonia, based on deido (I fear) and daimon (a deity). In Shakespeare’s Othello, the wife of Othello, who is smothered by him in a fit of jealousy incited by Iago.