Delìa

surname · Latin script

Delìa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Ancient Greek Δήλῐᾰ (Dḗlia), epithet of Artemis. Also used as a short form of the rare given name Adelia.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 8.8K
  • ECEcuador1 in 788

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

37,738 people, 2020

Sources
400 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 788 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Delia in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

From the Ancient Greek Δήλῐᾰ (Dḗlia), epithet of Artemis. Also used as a short form of the rare given name Adelia.

Sources 6

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Delìa 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.

Where Delìa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#96537,7381 in 8.8K38KDelia400
EC Ecuador—21,4551 in 78821K—19
ES Spain—7,2111 in 6.9K7.2KDelia79
MD Moldova—2,9841 in 1.1K3K—2
BR Brazil—2,5411 in 83K2.9K—3
CR Costa Rica—6461 in 7.9K646——

37,738 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; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); e-services.md — living population register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Delìa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Delìa mean, and where does it come from?
From the Ancient Greek Δήλῐᾰ (Dḗlia), epithet of Artemis. Also used as a short form of the rare given name Adelia. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 4 other sources.
In which country does Delìa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Delìa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delia.
Where is Delìa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Delìa is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 788 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Delìa?
In the United States, the national register counted 37,738 people named Delìa in 2020, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
How common is Delìa compared with other names?
In the United States, Delìa is the 965th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names 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, “Delìa” — the 965th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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