The surname Delph
An English surname, carried by 2,228 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex D410
Origin
English origin
(For the village) from Old English delf, gedelf (“quarry”)
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,228 people named Delph in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,575 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,107.
Who is named Delph
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Delph identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.8%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Delph has the Soundex code D410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D410.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Delph come from?
- (For the village) from Old English delf, gedelf (“quarry”)
- How common is the surname Delph?
- 2,228 people in the United States had the surname Delph in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,575 Americans. It ranked 13,600th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Delph?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Delph identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Delph getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,228 in 2010, up 5.7%.