Dalila

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dalila is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew Delilah, possibly 'delicate' or 'weak'.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 2.9K◐
  • HNHonduras1 in 3K
  • PTPortugal1 in 4.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈49K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
244 ●

175K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.2K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

DalilaLatin · Portuguese●384K records
ᲓალილაGeorgian · Georgian●812 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Hebrew Delilah, possibly 'delicate' or 'weak'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dalila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#75753,07332K rec.—27Dalila61
PE Peru#57648,59738K rec.——Dalila47
MX Mexico#62642,47333K rec.—317Dalila131
BR Brazil#93324,370△8.1K rec.1 in 8.7K28KDalila123
FR France—11,1700 rec.1 in 6.1K11K—1
VE Venezuela—11,0786.6K rec.——Dalila33
SV El Salvador#2579,2757.5K rec.——Dalila18
US United States—8,03318K rec.1 in 41K8KDalila244
HN Honduras#1536,0306K rec.——Dalila18
CL Chile#8735,423391 rec.—5Dalila41
EC Ecuador—3,222△145 rec.1 in 5.2K3.2KDalila29
IT Italy—2,1152.3K rec.—220Dalila74

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese384K49%
  • Spanish208K26%
  • French85K11%
  • English57K7%
  • Arabic5.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese384,48549%
Spanish208,04226%
French84,87911%
English56,5197%
Arabic5,4541%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dalila is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name65K records spelled Dalila16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Ecuador, Venezuela

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ďalîla, Dàlìlà, Dälîlā, Dãlīlā, Dalíla

  • Malay given name5.3K records spelled Dalila5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Dãlila, Dålilå, Dãlîlà

  • Italian given name1.9K records spelled Dalila7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Dalìla, Dälïlä, Dàlila, Dalilà, Dãlïlå

  • Croatian given name1.5K records spelled Dalila9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Далила

49 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●

Dalila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Delilah (mistress of Samson)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Hebreo Delilah; quizá 'pobreza', de dalál 'vacilar, languidecer, postrarse'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, Origine hébraïque; signifie « coquette »; nom biblique.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Gentleness is her soul

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Arabic, guide, model, leader; fem. of Dalil. See

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

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.

Over time●

0204060801950200075 · 1977

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Dalila in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1901–2024
Yearrecords
19011
19071
19082
19091
19114
19122
19131
19142
19151
19161
19172
19181
19191
19204
19214
19221
19233
19244
19261
19274
19283
19293
19304
19313
19329
19335
19348
19353
19363
19372
19383
19399
19409
19414
19423
19435
19445
19456
19464
19476
194812
19497
19509
195111
195217
195318
195415
195511
195612
195716
195813
195912
196015
196121
196217
196316
196418
196523
196616
196720
196821
196930
197023
197139
197247
197335
197448
197557
197649
197775
197850
197944
198029
198150
198240
198347
198455
198560
198658
198739
198836
198939
199045
199146
199240
199339
199449
199565
199660
199747
199873
199962
200055
200161
200256
200345
200446
200560
200647
200765
200869
200947
201047
201152
201249
201354
201439
201567
201642
201750
201849
201956
202037
202130
202264
202359
202442

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 117 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Dalila Rocha, b. 1920Dalila Di Lazzaro, b. 1953Dalila Rodrigues, b. 1960Dalila Ennadre, b. 1966Dalila Carmo, b. 1974Dalila Nesci, b. 1986Dalila Jakupović, b. 1991Dalila Abdulkadir, b. 1998Dalila Bella, b. 2001Dalila Ippólito, b. 2002

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Dalila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—28K#1,153
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202224K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24K#934
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202411K#1,956
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208K#2,861
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.2K#460
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#2,372
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19601.2K#10
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.2K#1,275
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020619—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—317#309
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—289#1,184

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 795 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dalila?
We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Dalila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Dalila have the most bearers?
Dalila is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled dalila.
How common is Dalila compared with other names?
In Argentina, Dalila is the 757th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Dalila a male or female name?
Dalila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Dalila mean?
Recorded meaning: From Hebrew Delilah, possibly 'delicate' or 'weak'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Dalila” — the 757th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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