as a Last Name
- 1,936
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Delph
Meaning & Origins
English: from Middle English delf ‘excavation’, ‘digging’ (Old English (ge)delf), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or quarry, a metonymic occupational name for a ditchcutter or quarryman, or alternatively a habitational name from any of various places named with this word, as for example Delf in Kent and Delph in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) and Yorkshire.
| 13,494th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,936
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Delph per capita
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