Is the streetcar Desire? Or Desirée?

I was told by a taxi customer the other day that the street (an actual street) named Desire was originally Desirée. A woman's name. The name of the daughter of the gentleman who lived there. In New Orleans, of course.
The Americans couldn't figure out such a name and changed it to Desire.

Ah, ok. Wikipedia has a link to the story that it is mis-spelled. It's up there.