Delacrúz

surname · Latin script

Delacrúz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish de la Cruz.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 7.3K
  • ECEcuador1 in 600

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)

72,109 people, 2010

Sources
367 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 600 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Delacruz in US United States, PH Philippines, ES Spain and 1 more and De-La-Cruz in AR Argentina.

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)

Borrowed from Spanish de la Cruz

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Delacrúz 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 Delacrúz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#76172,1091 in 4.6K76KDelacruz367
EC Ecuador—28,1531 in 60028K—15
ES Spain—25,7651 in 1.9K26KDelacruz39
PH Philippines#333≈15,000 est.≈1 in 7.3K—Delacruz87
AR Argentina—7,9001 in 5.8K7.9KDe-La-cruz30
PR Puerto Rico#147≈2,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Delacruz9
UY Uruguay—1,7411 in 1.9K1.7K—11

72,109 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Delacrúz 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 Delacrúz mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish de la Cruz Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Delacrúz have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 72 thousand people named Delacrúz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delacruz.
Where is Delacrúz most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Delacrúz is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 600 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Delacrúz?
In the United States, the national register counted 72,109 people named Delacrúz in 2010, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
How common is Delacrúz compared with other names?
In the United States, Delacrúz is the 761st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Delacrúz” — the 761st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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