Dell (name) explained

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 C., 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 (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 Raybould (1933–2023), American politician
• Dell Sanchez, former social worker, educator, and broadcasting executive
• Dell Williams (1922–2015), American feminist and businesswoman

Fictional characters

• Dell Parker, in the TV series Private Practice
• Dell Toledo, in
• Dell Conagher, in Team Fortress 2

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

• Big Dell, nickname of Wendell Sailor (born 1974), Australian rugby footballer
• Del (disambiguation), contains list of people with given name Del
• O'Dell, a surname

Notes and References

1. Book: Norman, Tessa . July 2003 . A World of Baby Names . New York . Perigree . 126 . 0-399-52894-6 . registration .