Delacroix

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: a one-hundred French franc note

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/delakʁwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Delacroix is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 32K
  • UYUruguay1 in 41K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,800 people, est.

Sources
236 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a one-hundred French franc note

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Delacroix is read(measured from records)

Delacroix is one spelling over 3 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.

  • French83%

    a one-hundred French franc note

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Comme l’effigie du peintre Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) figurait sur les billets de banque de 100 FF dans les années 1970, le mot delacroix désigna la somme de cent francs par un procédé métonymique courant. Voir Bonaparte, Pascal, Richelieu et Voltaire .

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

  • English8.5%

    E(kika), US politician

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    Eugene, French painter

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    de la Garza

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish5.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Delacroix in Spanish.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Delacroix 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 Delacroix is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈4,800 est.≈1 in 14K628Delacroix236
BE Belgium3631 in 32K367Delacroix61
US United States1931 in 1.7M224Delacroix95
AR Argentina1341 in 339K134——
IT Italy≈84 est.≈1 in 745K—Delacroix6
UY Uruguay821 in 41K82——
CH Switzerland591 in 142K59Delacroix18

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Delacroix is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Algeria, Kuwait, Egypt

    Also written Delaçroix

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Delacroix 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 Croatian, francuski romantički slikar i grafičar, svojim bojama utjecao je na impresioniste, oslikava povijesne i aktualne događaje ( Sloboda na barikadi )

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

1700180019002000Charles-François Delacroix, b. 1741Jean-François Delacroix, b. 1753Eugène Delacroix, b. 1798Alphonse Delacroix, b. 1807Henri Delacroix, b. 1845Léon Delacroix, b. 1867Henri Delacroix, b. 1873Blanche Delacroix, b. 1883Michel Delacroix, b. 1933Olivier Delacroix, b. 1964

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Delacroix, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Delacroix
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951782—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961704—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981667—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971666—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941637—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991628—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921595—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931506—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901423—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911406—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—367#4,437
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008363#4,408

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Delacroix mean, and where does it come from?
a one-hundred French franc note Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Delacroix?
A machine transcription gives /delakʁwa/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Delacroix have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Delacroix in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delacroix.
How common is the name Delacroix?
In Belgium, the national register counted 363 people named Delacroix in 2008, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.

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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, “Delacroix”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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