Delph Family History
Delph Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Delph Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Delph families
 27 - 51  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Delph families
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21 - 39 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Delph Family Origin
Delph Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Delph
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Delph Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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