Meaning and background
The story behind Della
Della is an established English diminutive of Adela or Adelaide. Its relationship is to those longer personal names, not to the Greek island background of the similar-looking Delia. Della is pronounced with two clear syllables and an open ending, making it easy to distinguish from the one-syllable Dell. Its older-fashioned sound comes from genuine given-name use rather than a fabricated ancient word.
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About Della
Recorded as a dog’s name
Della appears in 10 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/dɛlə/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/dɛlə/ · primary stress on syllable 1D EH1 L AH0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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