Delphi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ancient Greek city, site of oracle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
Delphi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.4M
- GAGabon≈1 in 217K
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 Delphi 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 217K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, 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 Delfi in ID Indonesia, ES Spain, GB United Kingdom and 1 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)ancient Greek city, site of oracle
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Delphi, 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)Delphi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | Delfi | 83 |
| US United States | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 124 | Delphi | 79 |
| ES Spain | 74as Delfi | 1 in 676K | 78 | Delfi | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | Delfi | 52 |
| NL Netherlands | 29 | 1 in 596K | 24 | Delfi | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 18as Delfi | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 1 |
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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Delphi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Delphi (a city, oracle in Greece)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 24 | #13,201 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 15 | #22,970 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2021 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Delphi mean, and where does it come from?
- ancient Greek city, site of oracle Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How common is the name Delphi?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 29 people named Delphi, about 1 in 596 thousand residents.
- In which country does Delphi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 253 people named Delphi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delfi.
What do you want to know about Delphi?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/delphiThe 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, “Delphi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.