Comments for DELLA:

The name Della is very elegant and pretty.

-- GroovyLady  9/12/2006

Della Street is the name of Perry Mason's lovely secretary in Erle Stanley Gardner's mystery books. She was portrayed by Barbara Hale on T.V.

-- breakofday  10/25/2006

This name also has an Irish form, but it's pronounced as Dee-la.

-- Anonymous User  1/11/2007

I think the name Della is very pretty. It comes off as elegant, but strong.

-- starrynights08  4/20/2007

Della is the female lead in O. Henry's Gift of the Magi.

-- Elphaba  12/31/2007

I once knew a girl named Danielle who went by Della.

-- Anonymous User  6/14/2008

Della Frye is the name of Rachel McAdam's character in State of Play.

-- elysa  4/19/2009

Famous bearers (besides Della Reese).

- Della Fox (1870-1913): American singing comedienne.

- Della Moore (1880-1926?): the girlfriend of the Old West outlaw Kid Curry, who rode with the Wild Bunch gang.

- Della Griffin (1925- ): jazz musician; member of two of the first all female R&B groups in the 1950s, The Enchanters and The Dell-Tones.

- Della Jones (born 1946): Welsh opera singer.

- Della Butcher (1922-1993): British patron of Singapore art.

- Della Purves (1945-2008): Scottish botanical artist.

- Della Leiter: Fictional character in the James Bond series. A friend of Bond, she is killed by a druglord's henchmen in "A License to Kill" and Bond avenges her death.

- Della Duck: Donald Duck's twin sister; also the mother of Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck.

- Della Falls: a waterfall on Vancouver Island in Canada. A prospector discovered the falls in 1899 and named them after his wife.

I also want to add that "Della" means "of the" in Italian.

-- Anonymous User  8/8/2009

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