Delarue

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Person who lives by a road or path, from French de la rue ‘of the path’

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 27K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 147K

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)

≈5,600 people, est.

Sources
249 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Person who lives by a road or path, from French de la rue ‘of the path’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Delarue 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 Delarue is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#842≈5,600 est.≈1 in 12K722Delarue249
BE Belgium—4271 in 27K427Delarue40
US United States—1631 in 2M173Delarue75
CA Canada—≈85 est.≈1 in 443K—Delarue28
NL Netherlands—631 in 274K63Delarue6
CH Switzerland—571 in 147K57Delarue16

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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)

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

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Belgium

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Delarü, De-La-Rue, Delaru

35 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Pierre-Félix Delarue, b. 1795Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, b. 1874Paul Delarue, b. 1889Jacques Delarue, b. 1901Jacques Delarue, b. 1919Maurice Delarue, b. 1919Jean-Luc Delarue, b. 1964Philippe Delarue, b. 1967Xavier Delarue, b. 1977Tatiana-Laurence Delarue, b. 1982

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 Delarue, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Delarue
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961948—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951899—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941827—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971762—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981747—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991722—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921678—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931666—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901576—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911492—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008427#3,636
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—424#3,725

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 Delarue mean, and where does it come from?
Person who lives by a road or path, from French de la rue ‘of the path’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Delarue?
A machine transcription gives /delaʁy/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Delarue have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Delarue in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delarue.
How common is the name Delarue?
In Belgium, the national register counted 427 people named Delarue in 2008, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
How common is Delarue compared with other names?
In France, Delarue is the 842nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames 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, “Delarue” — the 842nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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