First name origins & meanings:
- French: From the elder tree grove
- Irish: Dark
First name variations: Delaney, Delane, Del, Delanio, Delayno, Dellano
Last name origins & meanings:
- Respelling of French De la Noye, habitational name, with the
preposition de, for someone from any of various places called
La Noue or La Noë, for example in Marne, Charente, Maine-et-Loire,
named with Gaulish nauda ‘moist or marshy place’, ‘swamp’.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt’s mother was a Delano, descended from
Philippe de la Noye (1602–81), who arrived at Plymouth in 1621 in
the Fortune, one year after the Pilgrim Fathers.
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