Boy name origins & meanings
- Irish : Skilled
Family name origins & meanings
- Greek : derogatory nickname from Turkish deli ‘fool’, ‘foolish’, or a shortened form of any of the surnames formed with Deli as a prefix, e.g. Deligiannis ‘crazy John’.
- French : habitational name from Lys-les-Lannoy, Lisse in the Netherlands, or Lies in the Belgian province of Brabant.