as a Last Name
- 16,939
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Darby
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from the city of Derby, the county seat of Derbyshire, but also from the much smaller place called West Derby in Lancashire. Both are named from Old Norse djúr ‘deer’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. The usual spelling of the surname represents the pronunciation of both the place name and the surname.
| 1,832nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,939
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Darby per capita
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