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Early Origins of the Dealba family

The surname Dealba was first found in Navarre, one of the medieval Christian kingdoms of northern Spain.

Early History of the Dealba family

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Dealba Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Alba, Albo, Albu, Albba, Albos, Albas, Albar, Albans, Albanos, Albor, Albanor, Dealba, Dalba and many more.

Early Notables of the Dealba family

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Dealba Ranking

In the United States, the name Dealba is the 12,074th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. [1]


United States Dealba migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Dealba Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Juan DeAlba, who landed in Rio de la Plata in 1835 [2]

West Indies Dealba migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. [3]
Dealba Settlers in West Indies in the 19th Century
  • Catalina DeAlba, who arrived in Dominican Republic in 1836 [2]

Contemporary Notables of the name Dealba (post 1700) +

  • Alicia Gaspar de Alba (b. 1958), American scholar, cultural critic, novelist, and poet
  • Luis de Alba (b. 1945), Mexican actor and writer, known for Serafin y la lámpara libidinosa (1994), Los pelotones y Juan Camaney (1990) and El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere (1979)
  • Felipe de Alba (1924-2005), Mexican attorney and character actor from the 1940s and 1950s, husband to the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Rebecca de Alba (b. 1964), Mexican model and TV presenter


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies


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