Dell (name)

Dell is an English unisex given name, nickname, and surname. It means "small valley or glen" and comes from the Old English word del.[1]

Its feminine form, popular in the early 20th century, is Della.[1]

Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:

Given name or nickname

People

  • Dell Alston (born 1952), American baseball player
  • Dell Curry (born 1964), American former National Basketball Association player
  • Dell L. Dailey (born 1949), American retired lieutenant general and government official
  • Dell Darling (1861–1904), American baseball player
  • Dell Demps (born 1970), American basketball player and executive
  • Dell Henderson (1877–1956), Canadian actor, director and writer
  • Dell Hymes (1927–2009), American ethnographer, sociolinguist, anthropologist and folklorist
  • Dell Morgan (c. 1900–1962), American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball
  • Dell O'Dell (1902–1962), stage name of American magician Odella Newton
  • Dell Pettus (born 2001), American football player
  • Dell Raybould (1933–2023), American politician
  • Dell Williams (1922–2015), American feminist and businesswoman

Fictional characters

Surname

  • Tony Dell (born 1945) Australian test cricketer who played two tests in the 1970s
  • Aaron Dell (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
  • Alan Dell (1924–1995), British radio broadcaster
  • Allan Dell (born 1992), South African-born Scottish rugby player
  • Bernard Dell (born 1949), Australian botanist
  • Christian Dell (1893–1974), German silversmith and designer
  • Christopher Dell (born 1956), American diplomat
  • Christopher Dell (cricketer) (born 1960), Australian former cricketer
  • Claudia Dell (1910–1977), American showgirl and actress
  • Diana Dell (1982), Russian actress
  • Dick Dell (born 1947), American tennis player
  • Donald Dell (born 1938), American tennis player
  • Dorothy Dell (1915–1934), American actress
  • Edmund Dell (1921–1999), British politician
  • Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), British romance novelist
  • Floyd Dell (1887–1969), American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright and poet
  • Gabriel Dell (1919–1988), American actor, one of the Dead End Kids
  • Gaye Dell (born 1948), Australian hurdler and children's author
  • Glen Dell (1962–2013), South African commercial airline trainer and aerobatics pilot
  • Jimmy Dell (1924–2008), British test pilot
  • John Henry Dell (1830–1888), English landscape artist and illustrator
  • Michael Dell (born 1965), American businessman, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.
  • Miriam Dell (1924–2022), New Zealand women's advocate
  • Peter Dell the Elder (1490–1552), German sculptor
  • Philip Dell, American politician in Florida from the 1820s to the 1850s and plantation owner
  • Richard Dell (1920–2002), New Zealand malacologist
  • Roger L. Dell (1897–1966), American jurist
  • Salome Dell (born 1983), athlete from Papua New Guinea
  • Tank Dell (born 1999), American football player
  • Tony Dell (born 1947), Australian cricketer
  • Wheezer Dell (1886–1966), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • William Dell (c. 1607–1669), English clergyman and radical Parliamentarian

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Norman, Tessa (July 2003). A World of Baby Names. New York: Perigree. p. 126. ISBN 0-399-52894-6.