Delia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Greek; woman from the island of Delos; also another name for Artemis
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/delja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Delia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 594(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 721
- ECEcuador1 in 788
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 594 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled D'Elia in UY Uruguay.
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)
Greek; woman from the island of Delos; also another name for Artemis
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Delia is read(measured from records)
Delia is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish68%
Greek epithet of Artemis, from Delos
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English21%
Greek; woman from the island of Delos; also another name for Artemis
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
family of Italian artists
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
pers. name (D. Reese)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #648 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Delia | 78 |
| CN China | — | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Delia | 23 |
| AR Argentina | #187 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 594 | 1.3K | Delia | 100 |
| PE Peru | #175 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 721 | — | Delia | 74 |
| US United States | — | 37,738 | 1 in 8.8K | 38K | Delia | 355 |
| EC Ecuador | #151 | 21,455 | 1 in 788 | 21K | Delia | 46 |
| PY Paraguay | #155 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 831 | — | Delia | 37 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 905 | — | D'Elia | 41 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Delia 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 Italian, grafia justaposta de D'Elia.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Myrna Loyb. 1905USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1905–1993)
- Adele Goldstineb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican computer programmer (1920–1964)
- Daliah Lavib. 1942ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)
- Delia Boccardob. 1948ITItalian actress (born 1948)
- Dalia Itzikb. 1952ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Adele Neuhauserb. 1959ATnot in their usual nameAustrian actress
- Emeli Sandéb. 1987GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer
- Adeleb. 1988GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer-songwriter (born 1988)
- Ruth Kearneyb. 1989IEnot in their usual nameIrish actress
- Melanie Martinezb. 1995BRnot in their usual nameMexican-American singer-songwriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 104 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38K | #1,094 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 21K | #98 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 135 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 77 | #1,094 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 19 | #1,611 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Delia mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek; woman from the island of Delos; also another name for Artemis Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Delia?
- A machine transcription gives /delja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Delia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Delia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delia.
- How common is the name Delia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,738 people named Delia in 2020, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Delia compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Delia is the 648th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Delia?
- In the etymology graph, Aline, Ada and Alina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Delia a male or female name?
- Delia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What do you want to know about Delia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deliaThe 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, “Delia” — the 648th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.