Delphine
Just 58 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Greek at root, from a word meaning dolphin, and a near neighbour of the more familiar Delfina.
Delphine Pronunciation
What Delphine means
Where Delphine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Delphine comes from Greek. Behind it stands delphis, the word for dolphin, and the same root that named Delphi, the sanctuary where Apollo was worshipped as Apollo Delphinios. So the meaning most Polish parents will read on a name-day card, delfin, is not decoration laid over the name later. The dolphin is the origin.
France made the name its own. The clearest reason is Delphine de Signe, the fourteenth-century Provençal noblewoman remembered as Saint Delphine, who took a vow of chastity and lived among the Franciscan poor. Her memory kept Delphine circulating in Provence for centuries before it traveled north and, eventually, east.
In Poland the name arrives with a French accent and a familiar cousin. The variant Delfina sits closer to Polish spelling, and it is the form a teacher is likelier to read from a class register without pausing. Delphine keeps the ph, and with it the visible Greek root.
The sea animal stays legible under all of it. A child named Delphine or Delfina carries, in plain letters, the Greek word for dolphin.
How many people are named Delphine
1 in 388687 women in Poland is named Delphine. 58 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4854 among female names.
Delphine as a middle name
Delphine is a first name for 58 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1907th, between Daromiła (15) and Fabia (15).
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#1905 Damla15
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#1906 Daromiła15
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#1907 Delphine15
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#1908 Fabia15
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#1909 Fleur15