Délany
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Délany is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (i) Person from L'Aunou or L'Auney, northern France, ‘the alder-grove’; or (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Dubhshláine, ‘descendant of Dubhshláine’.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 130K
- USUnited States1 in 174K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
1,909 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Delany in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) Person from L'Aunou or L'Auney, northern France, ‘the alder-grove’; or (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Dubhshláine, ‘descendant of Dubhshláine’.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Délany counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,909 | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Delany | 279 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 130K | listed | Delany | 113 |
| AU Australia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 1 | Delany | 100 |
| IT Italy | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Delany | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Delany | 55 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Delany | 61 |
| SG Singapore | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Delany | 2 |
1,909 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Délany mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person from L'Aunou or L'Auney, northern France, ‘the alder-grove’; or (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Dubhshláine, ‘descendant of Dubhshláine’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Délany a male or female name?
- Délany is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Délany have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Délany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delany.
- How common is the name Délany?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,909 people named Délany in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A9lanyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Délany”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.