Delroy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Old French; of the king
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛɫɹɔɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Delroy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 81st most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 53K
- USUnited States1 in 125K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,659 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
Old French; of the king
Sources 1
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Delroy 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 | — | 2,659 | 1 in 125K | 2.6K | Delroy | 265 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | listed | Delroy | 135 |
| JM Jamaica | #81 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Delroy | 30 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Delroy | 5 |
| GY Guyana | #103 | 510 | 1 in 1.5K | 510 | Delroy | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 75 | 1 in 68K | 75 | — | — |
2,659 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Delroy 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.
Apparently an altered form of LEROY , perhaps representing the Old French phrase del roy ‘(son, servant) of the king’. It is used chiefly among West Indians in Britain.
as a word
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)
- Delroy Scottb. 1947JMJamaican footballer (1947-2018)
- Delroy Wilsonb. 1948JMJamaican singer (1948–1995)
- Delroy Lindob. 1952GBBritish-born American actor (born 1952)
- Delroy Washingtonb. 1952JMReggae singer
- Junior Reidb. 1963JMnot in their usual nameJamaican reggae and dancehall singer
- Delroy Pearsonb. 1970GBBritish singer (1970-)
- Delroy Leslieb. 1970JMJamaican boxer
- Delroy Faceyb. 1980GBBritish footballer (born 1980)
- Delroy Jamesb. 1987GYAmerican basketball player
- Brandon Perlmanb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican electronic music producer
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 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,122 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 510 | #181 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 75 | #2,571 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1937 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1940 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1941 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 22 | — |
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
- What does the name Delroy mean, and where does it come from?
- Old French; of the king Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Delroy a male or female name?
- Delroy is a male 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.
- How do you pronounce Delroy?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛɫɹɔɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Delroy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Delroy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delroy.
- Where is Delroy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Delroy is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Delroy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,659 people named Delroy in 2020, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
- How common is Delroy compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Delroy is the 81st most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/delroyThe 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, “Delroy” — the 81st most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.