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Darby


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Origin Of The Surname Darby

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Meaning Of The Surname Darby

From the Town with the Deer Manor

Interesting Facts About Darby

Darby is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old Norse ‘djur’ meaning deer, combined with ‘byr’ meaning settlement. Places with this name would have originally had, for example, a manor house with deer on its land.

Darby Statistics

Darby is the number 1292 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 7,980 share the surname Darby in the UK.

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