Delao
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdɛɫaʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Delao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Derived from De La O.
- USUnited States1 in 51K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 55K
- CUCuba≈1 in 4.2K
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)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
6,515 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Derived from De La O
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delao 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.
6,515 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Delao 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 Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular active past participle of delati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- David DeLaoUSAmerican actor
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.5K | #5,343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,439 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Delao mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from De La O Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Delao?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɛɫaʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Delao have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Delao, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delao.
- How common is the name Delao?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,515 people named Delao in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Delao compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Delao is the 168th most common surname of 21,589 surnames 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/delaoThe 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, “Delao” — the 168th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.