Delorean

French surname

"from the laurels"

Delorean Origin and Meaning

The name Delorean is a boy's name meaning "from the laurels".

DeLorean is an Anglicized variation of the French surname Deslauriers, originally used for someone who lived near laurel.

DeLorean is best known as the name of a 1980s sports car, ingrained in the public consciousness from its role as the time machine in the Back to the Future movies. It bore the surname of creator John Zachary DeLorean, whose last name was an anglicized version of his family's original Romanian surname.