Darby

Darby is the 1,951st most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,041 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,600.

By the numbers

People: 18,041
Rank: 1,951st
How common: 1 in 16,600
Per 100,000: 6.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

From the English place name Derby, from Old Norse djúr (“deer”) + býr (“settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Darby described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 59.7%
Black, not Hispanic 32.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Darby

Stephen Darby (born 1988)English association football player
John Nelson Darby (1800–1882)British Bible teacher, considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism.
Kim Darby (born 1947)American actress
Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800)English poet, novelist, dramatist, actress
Rhys Darby (born 1974)New Zealand actor, comedian and voice actor
Ken Darby (1909–1992)American composer

People named Darby with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Darby

Also a first name

Darby has been given to 11,278 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1995. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.