About the name Despina
Despina belongs to the Greek tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Despina first appears in Social Security records in 1914. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1964 in 1931, and in 2024 16 babies received the name — 1,517 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.