Délgado
surname · Latin script
Délgado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 7th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Delgado. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- CRCosta Rica1 in 151(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 167
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 265
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)
- #296 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 484 (measured from records)
- 1 in 136 (inferred from the name graph)
132,985 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Delgado in PE Peru, US United States, VE Venezuela 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)
From Spanish Delgado. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Délgado 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 | #660 | 132,985 | 1 in 2.5K | 133K | Delgado | 484 |
| ES Spain | #36 | 119,872 | 1 in 417 | 120K | Delgado | 253 |
| VE Venezuela | #46 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 265 | 891 | Delgado | 120 |
| EC Ecuador | #11 | 101,324 | 1 in 167 | 101K | Delgado | 100 |
| PE Peru | #44 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | — | Delgado | 150 |
| CR Costa Rica | #39 | 33,719 | 1 in 151 | 34K | Delgado | 119 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24,876 | 1 in 136 | 25K | — | 84 |
| CV Cape Verde | #7 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 6 | Delgado | 39 |
132,985 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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Délgado mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Delgado. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Délgado have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 133 thousand people named Délgado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delgado.
- Where is Délgado most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Délgado is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 136 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Délgado?
- In the United States, the national register counted 132,985 people named Délgado in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Délgado compared with other names?
- In the United States, Délgado is the 660th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
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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, “Délgado” — the 660th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.