Delo Family History

Altered form of German Thilo: variant of Thiel. English (Kent): variant of Dellow either a habitational name from Middle English del hoe ‘from the spur or promontory’ (Old English hōh) or from Middle English de(l) lawe de(l) louwe ‘from the knoll or mound’ (Old English hlāw).

English (of French Huguenot origin): Anglicized form either of French Deleu ‘(son) of Wolf’ from a name derived from leu Picard form of French loup ‘wolf’ or of Deleau ‘from the water’ denoting someone who lived on the banks of a river etc.

The name is also perhaps a surname of French form including the name of one of several places in the Netherlands called Loo from an Early Middle Dutch word from ancient Germanic lauha ‘open space in a wood’ with the Dutch definite article de; compare Vandeloo.