Dalziel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Dalziel in the Clyde valley; probably 'white field'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈdæɫˌziɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dalziel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 543K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
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 Dalziel 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)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 543K (inferred from the name graph)
613 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Диел in RU Russia.
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)Person from Dalziel in the Clyde valley; probably 'white field'. Traditionally pronounced 'dee-el'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dalziel 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 | 613 | 1 in 543K | 622 | Dalziel | 5 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 132M | — | Диел | 4 |
613 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Dalziel 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 English, Lanarkshire location name from Gaelic dail, ‘field’, and gheal, ‘white’; Hugh de Dalyhell was Sheriff of Lanark in 1288.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, James Henry, British newspaper
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, owner
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Scottish Gaelic: from the little field.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)- Andrew Dalzelb. 1742GBnot in their usual nameScottish scholar; (1742-1806)
- Davison Dalzielb. 1852GBBritish politician (1852-1928)
- Henry Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldyb. 1868GBBritish newspaper proprietor (1868-1935)
- John McEwan Dalzielb. 1872GBEnglish botanist (1872–1948)
- Dale Dalzielb. 1938CACanadian and American male curler
- Ian Dalzielb. 1947GBBritish politician (born 1947)
- Lianne Dalzielb. 1960NZNew Zealand politician
- Ian Dalzielb. 1962GBEnglish footballer (born 1962)
- Gordon Dalzielb. 1962GBScottish footballer and manager (born 1962)
- Ryan Dalzielb. 1982GBBritish racing driver
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 622 | #34,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 613 | #36,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 609 | #39,043 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #150,960 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #22,986 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #320,523 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
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
- Where does the name Dalziel come from?
- Person from Dalziel in the Clyde valley; probably 'white field'. Traditionally pronounced 'dee-el'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Dalziel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdæɫˌziɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Dalziel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Person from Dalziel in the Clyde valley; probably 'white field'.
- In which country does Dalziel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 613 people named Dalziel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dalziel.
- Where is Dalziel most common?
- Dalziel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 543 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dalziel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 613 people named Dalziel in 2010, about 1 in 543 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dalziel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dalzielThe 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, “Dalziel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.