Delgado
surname · Latin script
Meaning: offences within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: CNE, 2026
/delɡado/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Delgado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common surname.
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 94few records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 136
- CRCosta Rica1 in 151
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Delgado itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #296 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 484 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94 (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cape Verde, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- OEdemere(measured from records)
- OEdemung(measured from records)
offences within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice. Vars.: De(e)mer, Deamer (from OE demere, see above); Deem, Deam, Dome (from the OE root word, dema, doma, which like¬ wise meant arbiter or judge); De(e)ming (from OE demung judgement, act of judging). Patr.: Demers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Delgado is found
(measured from records)Delgado 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #60 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 426 | 6.1K | Delgado | 239 |
| US United States | #660 | 132,985 | 1 in 2.5K | 133K | Delgado | 484 |
| ES Spain | #36 | 119,872 | 1 in 417 | 120K | Delgado | 253 |
| CO Colombia | #81 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 479 | 66 | Delgado | 181 |
| VE Venezuela | #46 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 264 | 891 | Delgado | 120 |
| EC Ecuador | #11 | 101,324 | 1 in 167 | 101K | Delgado | 100 |
| CR Costa Rica | #39 | 33,719 | 1 in 151 | 34K | Delgado | 119 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24,876 | 1 in 136 | 25K | — | 84 |
| CV Cape Verde | #7 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 94 | 6 | Delgado | 39 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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)Delgado 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 Spanish, thin, skinny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
thin
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Portuguese, thin, delicate, fine
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, common in Metro Manila, Batangas, Laguna and Cavite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hil, a common surname from Spanish, widespread in Negros Occidental and Iloilo
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)- Manuel Antonio Noriega Morenob. 1934PAnot in their usual namePanamanian head of state (1934-2017)
- Rafael Correab. 1963ECnot in their usual namePresident of Ecuador (2007 - 2017) y Prófugo de la Justicia
- Úrsula Corberób. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress, singer and model
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Delgado mean, and where does it come from?
- offences within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Delgado?
- In Spanish /delɡado/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Delgado?
- Mondonomo estimates about 307 thousand people named Delgado in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delgado. After it come United States, Spain, Colombia and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Delgado?
- In the United States, the national register counted 132,985 people named Delgado in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Delgado compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Delgado is the 60th most common surname of 206,803 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/delgadoThe 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, “Delgado” — the 60th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.