Darby (name)

Darby is an English locational surname and has since become a given name. Its prefix derives from the Old Norse djúr ("deer"), and the suffix býr ("farm"/"settlement"). The oldest recorded surname dates to the period of 1160 - 1182 in Lincolnshire. Darby was a common pre-1800 alternative spelling of Derby, a city in England.^[1] People with the name or its variants include:

Surname

Darby
Family name
Pronunciation	/ˈdɑːrbi/ [2] DAR-bee
Meaning	"deer" "farm"/"settlement"
Region of origin	English
Related names	Derby

Darby

• Abraham Darby I (1678–1717), British ironmaster and pioneer of coke-fired smelting
• Abraham Darby II (1711–1763), British ironmaster, son of Abraham I
• Abraham Darby III (1750–1791), British ironmaster, builder of the world's first iron bridge
• Adrian Darby, OBE (born 1937), British environmentalist
• Al Darby, American football player
• Sir Anthony Darby, MP, (a.1698), English Member of Parliament
• Sir Charles Darby, senior British naval officer in the American War of Independence
• Christopher Darby-Griffith, DL, MP, British Member of Parliament, 1857–1868
• Chuck Darby, American Football Player (born October 22, 1975)
• Duane Darby, English footballer
• Francis Darby (1783–1850), eldest son of Abraham Darby III, art lover and correspondent of John Constable
• George Darby (c.1720–1790), Anglo-Irish vice-admiral in the British Royal Navy
• George Darby (baseball) (1869–1937), pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
• George Darby, MP, Member of Parliament for East Sussex 1837–1841
• Harry Darby (1895–1987), United States Senator
• Sir Henry Clifford Darby (1909–1992), British academic
• Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby, (1750–1823), Anglo-Irish admiral in the British Royal Navy
• Henry Darby-Griffith, CB, general, British Army
• John Darby (NASCAR official), NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race director
• John Fletcher Darby (1803–1882), United States Congressman
• John M. Darby, American botanist and academic
• John Nelson Darby, leader of the Plymouth Brethren, founder of the Darbyites and translator of the Darby Bible
• Joseph Darby, American military policeman
• Julian Darby, English footballer
• Kim Darby, American actress
• Mary Darby, maiden name of British poet Mary Robinson
• Matthew Darby, British conservationist and publisher
• Matthew Darby (later Darby-Griffith) (1772–1823), general, British Army
• Newman Darby, American inventor
• Rhys Darby (born 1974), New Zealand comedian and actor
• Séamus Darby, Irish Gaelic footballer
• Stephen Darby (born 1988), English footballer
• Steve Darby (born 1955), English football coach and pundit
• Thomas Darby, inventor of the Darby Steam-Digger
• Tom Darby, half of the country music duo Darby and Tarlton
• Sir William Darby (a.1439), English, Archdeacon of Bedford
• William Darby (1796–1871), aka Pablo Fanque, circus proprietor
• William Orlando Darby (1911–1945), U.S. Army officer, commander of Darby's Rangers

D'Arby

• Josie d'Arby, British actress
• Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer-songwriter now known as Sananda Maitreya

Given name

Darby
Pronunciation	/ˈdɑːrbi/ [2] DAR-bee
Gender	masculine

• Darby Bannard, American abstract painter
• Darby Crash, American musician, from the band The Germs
• Darby Conley American cartoonist creator of Get Fuzzy
• Darby Dougherty, American actress in the film Gummo
• Darby Hendrickson, American hockey player and coach
• Darby Mills, female Canadian rock vocalist
• Darby O'Leary, fictional character from the well-known folk song, "The Galbally Farmer"
• Darby Savage, Australian socialite and performer
• Darby Shaw, fictional lead female character in the book and film The Pelican Brief
• Darby Stanchfield, American film and television actress
• Darby Brown (1929-1988), Australian boxer of the 1940s and '50s

References

1. "Surname: Darby". surnamedb.com. 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
2. Jones, Daniel; Gimson, Alfred C. (1977) [1917]. Everyman's English Pronunciation Dictionary. Everyman's Reference Library (14 ed.). London: J. M. Dent & Sons. ISBN 0-460-03029-9.