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durban Name Meaning and History

  1. French: southern variant of Durbin.
  2. French: habitational name from any of various places called Durban, in Ariège, Aude, and Gers.
  3. In some cases, possibly German, from the personal name Urban, the initial d- having been acquired by a misdivision of Sankt Urban ‘St. Urban’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of durban Families in the US in 1920
Number of durban families
 17-31
 6-16
 1-5
 0
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