Delfino
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pleiomeris canariensis, a plant of the Canary Islands
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Delfino is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 71K
- BRBrazil1 in 100K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pleiomeris canariensis, a plant of the Canary Islands
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delfino 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Delfino | 3 |
| US United States | — | 4,714 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Delfino | 202 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,116 | 1 in 100K | 3K | Delfino | 134 |
| GT Guatemala | #540 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Delfino | 13 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 4.9K | Delfino | 83 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Delfino | 11 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Delfino | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | #444 | 123 | 1 in 28K | 1.4K | Delfino | 39 |
| MX Mexico | #430 | — | — | 331 | Delfino | 107 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Delfino is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal latino delphinus, 'delfino'; anche simbolo cristiano.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma ital. de Delphinus [v. Delfino].
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, VARIANT]: Delfini, Dalfino e Dalfini, Dolfino e Dolfini. ALTERATI:
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Proveniente da Delfi
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Italian, dolphin
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)
- Delfino Mulettib. 1755ITItalian historian and writer (1755-1808)
- Delfino Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerqueb. 1820BRBrazilian politician
- Delfino Codazzib. 1824ITItalian mathematician (1824-1873)
- Delfino Thermignonb. 1861ITItalian composer (1861-1944)
- Delfino Orsib. 1868ITItalian politician (1868-1929)
- Delfino Cinellib. 1889ITItalian writer and translator (1889-1942)
- Delfino Borronib. 1898ITItalian supercentenarian (1898-2008)
- Mestre Marçalb. 1930BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian musician
- Delfino Ambagliob. 1950historian (1950-2008)
- Delfino Garcésb. 1953MXMexican politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47K | #461 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,859 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Delfino mean, and where does it come from?
- Pleiomeris canariensis, a plant of the Canary Islands Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Delfino a male or female name?
- Delfino is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Delfino?
- In the etymology graph, Delfín is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Delfino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Delfino in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delfino.
- How common is the name Delfino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,714 people named Delfino in 2020, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Delfino compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Delfino is the 430th most common given name of 193,485 given names 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/delfinoThe 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, “Delfino” — the 430th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.