Entry № 2404 · French origin

Delphine Delphine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ del-FEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Dolphin / from Delphi (Saint Delphine; Delphine Seyrig)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "dolphin / from delphi (saint delphine; delphine seyrig)".

Delphine is the French form of the Latin Delphina — from the Greek delphys ("womb") or the dolphin (the sacred animal of Apollo) and the oracle at Delphi. Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990) — French actress and feminist filmmaker; muse of the French New Wave; starred in Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad (1961), one of the most-influential art films of the 20th century, and in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman (1975) — which in 2022 was voted the greatest film of all time in the Sight and Sound critics' poll, the first film by a woman director to top the list.

Dolphin / from Delphi.

The name in its native script.

Delphine
Transliteration
Delphine
Pronunciation
/ dɛlˈfiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Delphine stands.

Delphine 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.

Delphines before her.

Real people
Delphine Seyrig
French actress and feminist.
1932 – 1990
Saint Delphine of Glandèves
French Franciscan saint.
1283 – 1360
Delphine Arnault
CEO of Christian Dior Couture.
born 1975
In fiction
Delphine
Madame de Staël's Delphine.
1802

Names connected to Delphine.

The number behind Delphine.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Delphine reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.