Durban Family History
Durban Name Meaning
French: southern variant of Durbin. French: habitational name from any of various places called Durban, in Ariège, Aude, and Gers. In some cases, possibly German, from the personal name Urban, the initial d- having been acquired by a misdivision of Sankt Urban ‘St. Urban’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press