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The DEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 248 72905 0 1
United States (1880 census) 10 88584 0 0
Change since 1880 +238 +15679 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 3 187757 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 113 1305 0.000 3
Florida 30 3100 0.000 2
New Jersey 20 2075 0.000 2
New York 17 5147 0.000 1
Texas 11 7673 0.000 1
Top States for DEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 113 1305 0.000 3
New Jersey 20 2075 0.000 2
Florida 30 3100 0.000 2
Nevada 3 3515 0.000 2
Rhode Island 1 7610 0.000 1

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DEL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DEL by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DEL

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 102 41.13
White (Hispanic) 76 30.65
Black/African American 35 14.11
Asian/Pacific 21 8.47
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DEL in historical publications

B° DEL. A Norm. Fr. prefix to many medieval surnames, signifying "of the " as Del Dykes, Del Claye, Del Ho, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DEL

The following words are slight variants of DEL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.