Darby Family History
Darby Name Meaning
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.Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó
Diarmada (or Mac Diarmada) ‘descendant (or ‘son’) of
Diarmaid’, a personal name meaning ‘freeman’. See also
Dermott, Macdermott. Insofar as Gaelic Ó
Duibhdhiormaigh was sometimes reinterpreted as Ó
Diarmada, Darby could also be an Anglicization of this name
too. The English surname is also established in Ireland, having been
taken to County Leix in the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Darby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Darby families
 89 - 175  30 - 88 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Darby families
|
445 - 888 149 - 444 |
1 - 148 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Darby families
|
17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Darby Family Origin
Darby Immigration Information
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Darby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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