Dęlï

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dęlï is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatu.

  • XKKosovo≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 37K
  • ALAlbania1 in 42K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,700 people, est.

Record sources
117 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, 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 Delhi in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, BO Bolivia and Deli in ID Indonesia.

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)
Derivation of Dęlï: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dęlï
  1. GermanDelikatessen(measured from records)
  2. Frenchdélicatesse(measured from records)
  3. Latindelicatus(measured from records)

Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dęlï 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.

Where Dęlï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈7,700 est.≈1 in 37K—Deli84
BR Brazil2,2791 in 93K3KDelhi49
IN India≈1,200 est.≈1 in 1.2M44—12
MX Mexico≈530 est.≈1 in 249K—Delhi47
BO Bolivia≈360 est.≈1 in 34K—Delhi9
XK Kosovo≈120 est.≈1 in 14K384—1
AL Albania731 in 42K71——

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dęlï under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dęlï mean, and where does it come from?
Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatu… Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
Is Dęlï a male or female name?
Dęlï 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.
Which countries have the most people named Dęlï?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Dęlï in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deli. After it come Brazil, India, Mexico and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Dęlï?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,279 people named Dęlï in 2022, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.

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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, “Dęlï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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