Delmar: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

There is no single Delmar family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Delmar line, if any, bore arms.

What Delmar means

Delmar began as a Spanish family name. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “dweller near the sea”.

Landscape names of this kind told neighbours where a family's house stood. The 2010 US Census counted 1,184 people named Delmar, ranking it number 21,926 among American surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 207 babies born in France were registered as Delmar, with the most births in 1971–1980. There were 11 such births in the 1890s and 24 in the 1990s.

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