Delgado
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Delgado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 7th most common surname. Recorded meaning: offences within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 151(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 167
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 265
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)
- #296 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 484 (measured from records)
- 1 in 136 (inferred from the name graph)
132,985 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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(measured from records)
- OEdemere(measured from records)
- OEdemung(measured from records)
offences within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice. Vars.: De(e)mer, Deamer (from OE demere, see above); Deem, Deam, Dome (from the OE root word, dema, doma, which like¬ wise meant arbiter or judge); De(e)ming (from OE demung judgement, act of judging). Patr.: Demers.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delgado 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 | #660 | 132,985 | 1 in 2.5K | 133K | Delgado | 484 |
| ES Spain | #36 | 119,872 | 1 in 417 | 120K | Delgado | 253 |
| VE Venezuela | #46 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 265 | 891 | Delgado | 120 |
| EC Ecuador | #11 | 101,324 | 1 in 167 | 101K | Delgado | 100 |
| PE Peru | #44 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | — | Delgado | 150 |
| CR Costa Rica | #39 | 33,719 | 1 in 151 | 34K | Delgado | 119 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24,876 | 1 in 136 | 25K | — | 84 |
| CV Cape Verde | #7 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 6 | Delgado | 39 |
132,985 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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Delgado is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, thin, skinny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
thin
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Portuguese, thin, delicate, fine
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, common in Metro Manila, Batangas, Laguna and Cavite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, a common surname from Spanish, widespread in Negros Occidental and Iloilo
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Matías Delgadob. 1767SVPresident of El Salvador (1767-1832)
- Manuel Antonio Noriega Morenob. 1934PAnot in their usual namePanamanian head of state (1934-2017)
- Rafael Correab. 1963ECnot in their usual namePresident of Ecuador (2007 - 2017) y Prófugo de la Justicia
- Paco Delgadob. 1965ESSpanish costume designer (born 1965)
- Marcelo Delgadob. 1973ARArgentine footballer
- Agustín Delgadob. 1974ECEcuadorian footballer and politician
- César Delgadob. 1981ARArgentine footballer
- Alexis Ruanob. 1985ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Laura Fernández Delgadob. 1986CRPresident of Costa Rica since 2026
- Úrsula Corberób. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress, singer and model
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 48 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 133K | #221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 129K | #227 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 120K | #34 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 120K | #34 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 101K | #17 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 101K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 99K | #282 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 34K | #63 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 25K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 2.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2007 | 1.9K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2011 | 1.8K | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Delgado mean, and where does it come from?
- offences within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does Delgado have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 133 thousand people named Delgado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delgado.
- Where is Delgado most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Delgado is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 136 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Delgado?
- In the United States, the national register counted 132,985 people named Delgado in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Delgado compared with other names?
- In the United States, Delgado is the 660th 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, “Delgado” — the 660th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.