Dêl
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dêl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 12K
- COColombia≈1 in 18K
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #68 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 449 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Del in AR Argentina, VE Venezuela, CO Colombia and 3 more.
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)
From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dêl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #9 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Del | 172 |
| US United States | — | 3,977 | 1 in 84K | 3.4K | Del | 449 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Del | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,877 | 1 in 3.5K | 2.9K | — | 54 |
| CO Colombia | #100 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Del | 178 |
| VE Venezuela | #3 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Del | 95 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Del | 53 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Dêl 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 Kurdish, bitch (all senses)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, inflection of dod:
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dêl mean, and where does it come from?
- From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Dêl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Dêl in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled del.
- Where is Dêl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dêl is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dêl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,977 people named Dêl in 2020, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Dêl compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Dêl is the 9th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%AAlThe 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, “Dêl” — the 9th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.