Delphine

given name · French · Latin script

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

Delphine is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 29th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Female form of Delphin, from Greek delphis 'dolphin'.

rarermore common
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 1.4K◐
  • CMCameroon1 in 1.9K
  • GHGhana1 in 2.2K

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

≈37K ●

across 9 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
372 ●

2.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.1K ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

DelphineLatin · French●895K records
เดอThai · Thai●952 records
দেইBengali · Bangla●8 records
ΔεηGreek · Greek●0 records
델핀Hangul · Korean●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Doe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 13 more, Dei in IN India, Do in BR Brazil and เดอ in TH Thailand.

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●

Female form of Delphin, from Greek delphis 'dolphin'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Delphine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—30,301263K rec.1 in 11K263KDoe372
GB United Kingdom—18,32723K rec.—3Doe140
NG Nigeria#5369,7619.9K rec.——Doe25
UA Ukraine—6,7896.9K rec.——Doe13
DE Germany—6,66617K rec.—1Doe114
GH Ghana#1186,4546.3K rec.——Doe63
PH Philippines—5,9676.4K rec.—18KDoe31
MA Morocco#295,7966.1K rec.——Doe17
PK Pakistan#4205,5675.7K rec.——Doe11
EG Egypt#7984,0334K rec.——Doe15
SA Saudi Arabia#1922,9663K rec.——Doe9
TH Thailand—2,7762K rec.—#884,456เดอ77

Roughly 30K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • French895K89%
  • English74K7%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)5.8K1%
  • Swahili3.7K1%
  • Spanish3.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French895,06989%
English73,7257%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)5,7711%
Swahili3,6581%
Spanish3,2061%

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◐

Delphine is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name93K records spelled Delphine13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Delphiné, Dèlphine, Delphîne

  • Italian given name646 records spelled Delphine2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Delphiné

  • Russian given name338 records spelled Delphine21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Canada, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Delfin, Dolphin, Delfim, Делфин, Делфін

67 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●

Delphine 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 English, A female given name from French, Latin, or Ancient Greek.

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

  • In French, Du grec delphin « dauphin »; fête de sainte Delphine le 26 novembre.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, D’origine latine, signifie « dauphin ».

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

  • In English, From Delphinium; flower name

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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●

0100200300400190019502000348 · 1958

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Delphine in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18805
18819
188210
188315
18849
18855
188611
188712
188814
188912
189017
189110
189216
189316
189421
189513
189617
189718
189820
189913
190036
190121
190226
190320
190428
190527
190630
190730
190832
190937
191052
191157
191277
191366
1914107
1915123
1916137
1917130
1918125
1919147
1920165
1921201
1922180
1923199
1924223
1925204
1926203
1927237
1928242
1929226
1930242
1931220
1932187
1933180
1934170
1935160
1936163
1937144
1938138
1939126
1940116
1941117
1942111
1943117
1944100
194589
194691
194781
194895
194988
1950104
1951141
1952150
1953136
1954140
1955120
1956154
1957132
1958348
1959251
1960191
1961169
1962136
196392
1964106
196586
196656
196755
196852
196944
197044
197159
197238
197341
197437
197532
197624
197723
197821
197924
198023
198115
198218
198311
198412
198511
198611
198716
19888
198916
19906
19918
199213
199311
199410
199514
19967
199714
199811
19999
200011
200110
20027
200317
200417
200512
200620
200711
200818
200931
201024
201126
201235
201336
201435
201560
201646
201743
201849
201943
202042
202141
202251
202343
202442
202542

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Delphine LaLaurie, b. 1787Delphine de Girardin, b. 1804Delphine Seyrig, b. 1932Delphine de Vigan, b. 1966Princess Delphine of Belgium, b. 1968Delphine Coulin, b. 1972Delphine Batho, b. 1973Delphine Arnault, b. 1975Delphine Depardieu, b. 1979Delphine Cascarino, b. 1997

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 63 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Delphine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024128K#1,598
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.3K#3,750
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—348#2,544
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—145#6,524
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—129#12,896
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—126#5,804
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—122#4,798
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—117#7,643
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—104#7,534
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202464—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—59#2,095
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202659#2,095

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 · 552 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Delphine?
We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Delphine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Delphine have the most bearers?
We estimate about 30 thousand people bear Delphine in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled doe.
How common is Delphine compared with other names?
In Morocco, Delphine is the 29th most common surname of 210,764 surnames recorded there.
Is Delphine a male or female name?
Delphine is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Delphine mean?
Recorded meaning: Female form of Delphin, from Greek delphis 'dolphin'.
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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, “Delphine” — the 29th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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