Delight
org · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Delight is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 589Kas Dilai
- ESSpain1 in 2.4Mas Dilai
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 Delight itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2M (inferred from the name graph)
105 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Delight, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delight 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 | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 665 | — | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 69as Dilai | 1 in 3.1M | 69 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 65as Dilai | 1 in 589K | 36 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 21as Dilai | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | #196,287 | Delight | 11 |
105 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Delight Sweetser Prentissb. 1873born 1873; died 1903
- Ola Delight Smithb. 1880USAmerican telegrapher, journalist, and labor activist (1880-1958)
- Delight Riceb. 1883USAmerican missionary and educator of the deaf
- Delight Evansb. 1902USAmerican film critic (1902–1985)
- Quincy Jonesb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican record producer and composer (1933–2024)
- Jonathan Delight Lucasb. 1964GB(born 1964)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 665 | #16,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38 | #16,155 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1946 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1934 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1935 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1939 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1932 | 20 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Delight have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 105 people named Delight, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Delight most common?
- Delight is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Delight?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105 people named Delight in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Delight?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/delightThe 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, “Delight”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.