Delgádo

surname · Latin script

Delgádo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Delgado. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

  • CVCape Verde≈1 in 94few records(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 136
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 151

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Delgádo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈310,000 people, est.

#296 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
484 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 94 (inferred from the name graph)

Cape Verde, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
DelgádoLatin(measured from records)
ДельгадоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Delgado in MX Mexico, US United States, VE Venezuela and 5 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 .

Cited for this meaning 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 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Delgádo 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 Delgádo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#60≈310,000 est.≈1 in 4266.1KDelgado239
US United States#660132,9851 in 2.5K133KDelgado484
ES Spain#36119,8721 in 417120KDelgado253
CO Colombia#81≈110,000 est.≈1 in 47966Delgado181
VE Venezuela#46≈110,000 est.≈1 in 264891Delgado120
EC Ecuador#11101,3241 in 167101KDelgado100
CR Costa Rica#3933,7191 in 15134KDelgado119
UY Uruguay—24,8761 in 13625K—84
CV Cape Verde#7≈5,600 est.≈1 in 946Delgado39

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Delgádo is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Delgado

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Delgádo 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 Delgádo 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 Delgádo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 307 thousand people named Delgádo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delgado.
How common is the name Delgádo?
In the United States, the national register counted 132,985 people named Delgádo in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
How common is Delgádo compared with other names?
In Mexico, Delgádo is the 60th most common surname of 206,803 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, “Delgádo” — the 60th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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