Given name & surname
Delio
Delio is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Cebuano.
Original ItalianDe Lio
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Cebuano usage, Delio is a diminutive of RODELIO.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Delio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 98
- 98 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 638 as a first name in 2020; 682 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Delio’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Delio is a diminutive of RODELIO. In English usage, Delio as a surname was borrowed from the Italian form De Lio.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Delio
- Delio RossiItalian footballer and managerborn 1960
- Delio OnnisFootball player and manager (born 1948)
- Delio ToledoParaguayan footballerborn 1976
- Delio RodríguezSpanish racing cyclist (1916–1994)
- Delio GamboaColombian footballer (1936-2018)
- Delio FernándezSpanish bicycle racerborn 1986
- Delio TessaItalian poet (1886-1939)
- Delio LucarelliItalian priest1939–2024
- Delio CantimoriItalian historian and politician (1904-1966)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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