Delila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Dalüa: aus der Bibel über nommener weibl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛˈɫiɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Delila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 124K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 3.5K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 24K
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)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
2,685 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Dalüa: aus der Bibel über nommener weibl. Vom., vielleicht mit der
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delila 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,685 | 1 in 124K | 2.7K | Delila | 194 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Delila | 6 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Delila | 7 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Delila | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 446K | — | Delila | 7 |
| FI Finland | 58 | 1 in 96K | 160 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 42 | 1 in 50K | 45 | — | — |
2,685 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Delila 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 Serbo-Croatian, inflection of deliti:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, inflection of deliť:
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)
- Delila Richards Abbottb. 1908USAmerican politician
- Delilah Amirb. 1930ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli activist
- Delila Hatuelb. 1980ILIsraeli fencer
- Delila Kayaactress
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)
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 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #6,081 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 160 | #2,072 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 118 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 108 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 86 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 45 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 45 | #2,298 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 42 | #1,165 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 42 | #1,160 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 38 | #1,234 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 35 | #1,252 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Delila a male or female name?
- Delila is a female 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.
- How do you pronounce Delila?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛˈɫiɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Delila mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Dalüa: aus der Bibel über nommener weibl.
- What are other forms of the name Delila?
- In the etymology graph, Delilah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Delila have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Delila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delila.
- How common is the name Delila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,685 people named Delila in 2020, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/delilaThe 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, “Delila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.