Surname meaning and origin
Delgado
Spanish and Portuguese: Thin, slender
Pronounced del-GAH-doh
Where the name comes from
- Spanish and PortugueseThin, slenderdelgado, from Latin delicatus, "dainty, exquisite"The Dictionary of American Family Names (2022): "nickname for a thin person from delgado ‘slender’ (from Latin delicatus ‘dainty exquisite’). A derivative of deliciae ‘delight joy’." Nicknames like this are one of the four great sources of European surnames, beside places, trades and fathers’ names.
Delgado across traditions
- Spain and the Spanish-speaking world. Found across Spain, Portugal and Latin America, and long established in the American Southwest.
Forms in other languages
Delgadillo (diminutive), Delgada
Delgado in letter-number systems
Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.
117
Hebrew Standard
9
Hebrew Ordinal
48
English Simple
288
English Sumerian
141
English Reverse
117
Greek Isopsephy
9
Chaldean
3
Pythagorean
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