D'Elia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic

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

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

D'Elia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 594(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 721
  • ECEcuador1 in 788

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
355 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 594 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

D'EliaLatin(measured from records)
ΔελιαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Delia in AR Argentina, PE Peru, US United States and 4 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)

a surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

D'Elia 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 D'Elia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#648≈100,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Delia78
CN China—≈80,000 est.≈1 in 17K—Delia23
AR Argentina#187≈77,000 est.≈1 in 5941.3KDelia100
PE Peru#175≈44,000 est.≈1 in 721—Delia74
US United States—37,7381 in 8.8K38KDelia355
EC Ecuador#15121,4551 in 78821KDelia46
PY Paraguay#155≈8,700 est.≈1 in 831—Delia37
UY Uruguay—≈3,700 est.≈1 in 905—D'Elia41

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

D'Elia is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Canada

    Languages: Italian, English, German

    Also written Delia, D’Elia, Délia, D-Elia, D''Elia

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

    Also written Delia, D-Elia, D’Elia, D''Elia, D'Élia

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written D'Elía, D’Elia, D’Élia, D’Elía, D'Élia

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Japan, United States

    Also written D’Elia

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Philippines, India

    Also written Delia, Délia, Dèlia

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Peru

    Also written Delia, 'Delia, Delia', D’Elia, Délia

  • Turkish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Romania, Peru

    Also written Delia

  • Lao given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Delia, Delía

20 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)

D'Elia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, de di [de] e Elia.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

19201940196019802000Salvatore D'Elia, b. 1928Toshiko D'Elia, b. 1930Pietro D'Elia, b. 1946William D'Elia, b. 1946Sergio D'Elia, b. 1952Bill D'Elia, b. 1953Ilaria D'Elia, b. 1975Chris D'Elia, b. 1980Fabio D'Elia, b. 1983Salvatore D'Elia, b. 1989
  • Salvatore D'Eliab. 1928ITnot in their usual nameItalian historian (1928–2002)
  • Toshiko D'Eliab. 1930USnot in their usual namemasters long distance runner
  • Pietro D'Eliab. 1946ITnot in their usual nameItalian association football referee
  • William D'Eliab. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican mobster
  • Sergio D'Eliab. 1952ITnot in their usual nameItalian activist
  • Bill D'Eliab. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter, producer, director and actor
  • Ilaria D'Eliab. 1975ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress and voice actress
  • Chris D'Eliab. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
  • Fabio D'Eliab. 1983LInot in their usual nameFootballer (born 1983)
  • Salvatore D'Eliab. 1989ITnot in their usual nameItalian footballer

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 D'Elia,Dear D'Elia, (English)
InformalEstimado/a D'Elia,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting D'Elia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 D'Elia mean, and where does it come from?
a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce D'Elia?
A machine transcription gives /delja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does D'Elia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named D'Elia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delia.
How common is the name D'Elia?
In the United States, the national register counted 37,738 people named D'Elia in 2020, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
How common is D'Elia compared with other names?
In the Philippines, D'Elia is the 648th most common given name of 486,299 given names 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, “D'Elia” — the 648th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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