Entry № 2399 · English origin

Della Della — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEL-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Noble (Della Reese, Touched by an Angel)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "noble (della reese, touched by an angel)".

Della is the English diminutive of names ending in -della (such as Adella, Cordelia) or of Delia — also from the Germanic edel (noble). Della Goodwin — American educator. Della Reese was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1994). Della is also the diminutive of Adele.

Noble (Della Reese, Touched by an Angel) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Della
Transliteration
Della
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɛl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Della stands.

Della does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dellas before her.

Real people
Della Reese
American singer, actress, minister.
1931 – 2017
Della Beatrice Dean
American settlement worker.
1881 – 1956
In fiction
Tess
Touched by an Angel.
1994

Names connected to Della.

The number behind Della.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Della reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.