Delian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Of or relating to the Greek island of Delos
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/diːliən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Delian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 11Kas Delyan(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 252K
- NLNetherlands1 in 421K
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 Delian itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 252K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Delyan in BG Bulgaria, US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)
Of or relating to the Greek island of Delos.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delian 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 | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Delian | 16 |
| BG Bulgaria | #805 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Delyan | 74 |
| BR Brazil | — | 236 | 1 in 897K | 236 | Delian | 32 |
| US United States | — | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 72 | Delyan | 50 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 881K | — | Delian | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 41 | 1 in 421K | 31 | Delyan | 5 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Delian | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 12 | 1 in 425K | 12 | Delian | 3 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Delian is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Delian, Bulgarian king. 1041.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In osx, to deal out, to distribute
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, feuillet
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 236 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 208 | #24,694 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 206 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 164 | #16,073 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 162 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 155 | #22,604 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 86 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 81 | #22,604 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 76 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 72 | #48,840 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 65 | #24,623 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #48,840 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Delian mean, and where does it come from?
- Of or relating to the Greek island of Delos. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Delian?
- A machine transcription gives /diːliən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Delian a male or female name?
- Delian is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Delian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Delian in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delian.
- How common is the name Delian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 236 people named Delian in 2022, about 1 in 897 thousand residents.
- How common is Delian compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Delian is the 805th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Delian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/delianThe 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, “Delian” — the 805th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.