Delay

Delay is the 10,072nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,051 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 98,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,051
Rank: 10,072nd
How common: 1 in 98,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Black, not Hispanic 5.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Delay

Florence Delay (1941–2025)French writer
Tom DeLay (born 1947)American Republican politician
Jean Delay (1907–1987)French psychiatrist
Jan Delay (born 1976)German rapper and singer

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

Surnames like Delay

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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.