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The DARBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,854 1850 0.007 66
United States (1880 census) 4,176 1478 0.008 84
Change since 1880 +13678 -372 -0.001 -18
Other Countries
Australia 1,241 1330 0.008 76
United Kingdom 7,687 802 0.017 167
Top States for DARBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,368 1814 0.007 66
Florida 1,323 1585 0.008 83
Louisiana 1,177 553 0.026 263
California 1,098 2932 0.003 32
South Carolina 1,091 606 0.027 272
Top States for DARBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,091 606 0.027 272
Louisiana 1,177 553 0.026 263
Mississippi 606 750 0.021 213
Alabama 892 866 0.020 201
Washington DC 88 747 0.015 154

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DARBY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DARBY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DARBY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DARBY by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DARBY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DARBY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DARBY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DARBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 250 1.4
White (Hispanic) 243 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 86 0.48
Asian/Pacific 64 0.36
White (Caucasian) 11,803 66.11
Black/African American 5,410 30.3

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DARBY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DARBY in historical publications

(origin: Local) A corruption of Derby, a shire of England, so called from doire, a forest, a woody, hilly country abounding in deer; or it may be Deerby, the town of deer.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DARBY. A corruption of Derby. So Darbishire from Derbyshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DARBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DARBY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DARBY

The following words are slight variants of DARBY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.