Dell

Where Dell comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dell.

Dell through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #465 among boys with 15 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #921.
  3. 1925
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  4. 1927
    Dell Hymes born
    American anthropologist and linguist
  5. 1964
    Dell Curry born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Dell Curry · American basketball player, born 1964
  • Dell Hymes · American anthropologist and linguist, 1927–2009
  • Dell Henderson · Canadian actor, writer and director, 1883–1956
  • Dell Demps · American basketball player-coach, born 1970
  • Dell L. Dailey · former head of the State Department's counterterrorism office, born 1949

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.