The delph Surname
delph Name Meaning and History
English: from Middle English delf ‘excavation’, ‘digging’
(Old English (ge)delf), hence a topographic name for someone
who lived by a ditch or quarry, a metonymic occupational name for a
ditch-cutter or quarryman, or alternatively a habitational name from
any of various places named with this word, as for example Delf in
Kent and Delph in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) and Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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