Delibes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Leo, French composer

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 633K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

79 people

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 633K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Leo, French composer

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Delibes 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 Delibes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain791 in 633K79Delibes23
AR Argentina131 in 3.5M13Delibes8
NL Netherlands51 in 3.5M5—1
PE Peru———Delibes7
US United States———Delibes4

79 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Delibes is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Délibes

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Делиб

16 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)

Delibes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of dēlībō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Croatian, francuski skladatelj, romantičar, prvi skladatelj ozbiljnih i visokokvalitetnih djela za balet ( Coppelia )

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

18001850190019502000Léo Delibes, b. 1836François Delibes, b. 1873Miguel Delibes, b. 1920Germán Delibes de Castro, b. 1949Alicia Delibes Liniers, b. 1950Dimitri Delibes, b. 1999

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 Delibes, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Delibes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—79#32,602
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—79#32,413
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075#78,630

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Delibes mean, and where does it come from?
Leo, French composer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Delibes?
A machine transcription gives /dɛʎib/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Delibes have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 79 people named Delibes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delibes.
Where is Delibes most common?
Delibes is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 633 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Delibes?
In Spain, the national register counted 79 people named Delibes, about 1 in 633 thousand residents.

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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, “Delibes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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