Delano

4,793 people in the United States were counted with the surname Delano in the 2020 census, making it the 6,762nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 62,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,793
Rank: 6,762nd
How common: 1 in 62,400
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Americanized form of French Delannoy, from Old French de (“from”) + Lannoy (the name of several places in France and Belgium), from l (“the”) + Latin alnētum (“alderwood”), from alnus (“alder”) + -ētum (“place”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Delano described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Delano

Diane Delano (1957–2024)American actress
Jack Delano (1914–1997)American photographer and composer
Adore Delano (born 1989)American singer and drag queen
Columbus Delano (1809–1896)American politician

People named Delano with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Delano

Also a first name

Delano has been given to 5,602 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1933. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.