Delacroix

• Spanish:/delakɾoiks/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

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 word·kaikki.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 name·2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

• English8.5%

  E(kika), US politician

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  Eugene, French painter

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  de la Garza

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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.

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 word·Hrvatski 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.

• Charles-François Delacroixb. 1741FRFrench diplomat (1741-1805)
• Eugène Delacroixb. 1798FRFrench painter (1798–1863)
• Léon Delacroixb. 1867BEBelgian prime minister (1867-1929)

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).

23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

In Spanish /delakɾoiks/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Delacroix?

Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Delacroix in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delacroix. After it come Belgium, United States, Argentina and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Delacroix?

In Belgium, the national register counted 363 people named Delacroix in 2008, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.