The Delaporte surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 303 people carried this name — #65,424 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is up 14% from 265 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Delaporte surname
Variant of De La Porte.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Delaporte» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 3,983 people named Delaporte.
50 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 79 départements, most often Somme.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
36 people named Delaporte live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 28 people named Delaporte live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Tucumán.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Delaporte,
with a public archive behind them.
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Mathilde Guthlin Delaporte d. 1911 · composer
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Louis Delaporte d. 1701 · artist
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François Delaporte d. 1730 · furniture maker
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Marguerite Delaporte 1610– · businessperson
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Henri-Horace Roland Delaporte 1724–1793 · painter
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Jean-Baptiste François Delaporte 1750–1824 · politician
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Delaporte.
- Delamotte 210 · U.S. census
- Delance 251 · U.S. census
- Delande 139 · U.S. census
- Delange 1,216 · U.S. census
- Delannoy 213 · U.S. census
- Delanoy 427 · U.S. census
- Delaroche 166 · U.S. census
- Delarue 163 · U.S. census
- Delassus 146 · U.S. census
- Delatour 257 · U.S. census
- Delatte 1,230 · U.S. census
- Delattre 249 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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