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

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

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

Delgado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 7th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 151(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 167
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 265

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)

132,985 people, 2010

#296 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
484 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 136 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DelgadoLatin(measured from records)
ДельгадоCyrillic(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)

Derivation of Delgado: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Delgado
  1. OEdemere(measured from records)
  2. 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.

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Delgado is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#660132,9851 in 2.5K133KDelgado484
ES Spain#36119,8721 in 417120KDelgado253
VE Venezuela#46≈110,000 est.≈1 in 265891Delgado120
EC Ecuador#11101,3241 in 167101KDelgado100
PE Peru#44≈90,000 est.≈1 in 353—Delgado150
CR Costa Rica#3933,7191 in 15134KDelgado119
UY Uruguay—24,8761 in 13625K—84
CV Cape Verde#7≈510 est.≈1 in 1.2K6Delgado39

132,985 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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Delgado is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Del-Gado, Delgadoe, Dëlgädö, Delgadö, Dêlgádo

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Del-Gado, Delgadó, Delgadő, Dëlgädö, Délgàdo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group
  • Lao surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written เดลกาโด, Dëlgädö, Délgádó, Dêlgâdô, Dêlgâdo

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, Peru

    Also written Dëlgädo, Dëlgädó, Delgädo, Dëlgädö

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Spain, Peru

    Also written Délgádó

73 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.

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)

1700180019002000José Matías Delgado, b. 1767Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno, b. 1934Rafael Correa, b. 1963Paco Delgado, b. 1965Marcelo Delgado, b. 1973Agustín Delgado, b. 1974César Delgado, b. 1981Alexis Ruano, b. 1985Laura Fernández Delgado, b. 1986Úrsula Corberó, b. 1989

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)

FormalEstimado/a Delgado,Dear Delgado, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Delgado,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 48 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Delgado
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010133K#221
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020129K#227
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—120K#34
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—120K#34
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024101K#17
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—101K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200099K#282
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—34K#63
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—25K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19952.1K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20071.9K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20111.8K—

Reference works 6

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 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?
A machine transcription gives /delɡado/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Delgado have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 133 thousand people named Delgado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delgado.
Where is Delgado most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Delgado is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 136 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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 the United States, Delgado is the 660th most common surname of 6,282,806 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, “Delgado” — the 660th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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