Darby (name)
Darby is an English locational surname and has since become a given name. Its prefix derives from the Old Norse djúr, and the suffix -býr. The oldest recorded use as a surname dates to the period of 1160–1182 in Lincolnshire. Darby was a common pre-1800 alternative spelling of Derby, a city in England.
In Ireland, Darby is a diminutive of the Gaelic name Ó Diarmada, which means "descendant of Diarmaid".
Notable people with the name or its variants include:
Surname
Darby
D'Arby
- Josie d'Arby, British actress
- Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer-songwriter
Given name
- Darby Allin, American wrestler
- Darby Bailey, American actress, musician, songwriter, writer/producer, and businesswoman
- Darby Bergin, Ontario physician and political figure
- Darby Berkhout, Canadian rower
- Darby Brown, Australian boxer of the 1940s and '50s
- Darby Camp, American actress
- Darby Conley, American cartoonist creator of Get Fuzzy
- Darby Cottle, American softball player
- Darby Cowgill, Programmer
- Darby Crash, American musician, from the band The Germs
- Darby Dougherty, American actress in the film Gummo
- Darby Dunn, American journalist and reporter
- Darby Field, British, first European to climb Mount Washington in New Hampshire
- Darby Gould, American vocalist
- Darby Hendrickson, American hockey player and coach
- Darby Hinton, American actor and filmmaker
- Darby Jones, American actor
- Darby Lloyd Rains, American adult film performer
- Darby Loudon, New Zealand-born rugby union player
- Darby Lux II, American businessman, militiaman in the American Revolution
- Darby McCarthy, Australian jockey
- Darby McDevitt, American game developer and writer
- Darby Mills, Canadian rock vocalist
- Darby Nelson, American writer and politician
- Darby O'Brien, American baseball player
- Darby Penney, American writer, activist
- Darby Riordan, Australian politician
- Darby Slick, American guitarist and songwriter
- Darby Stanchfield, American film and television actress
- Darby W. Betts, American Episcopal priest
- Darby Walker, Canadian ice hockey player
Fictional characters
- Ernest Darby, on the television series Sons of Anarchy
- Daniel J. D'Arby, from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series
- Darby O'Gill, in the writings of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
- Darby Carter, on the television series Love Life as portrayed by Anna Kendrick
- Darby Shaw, in the film The Pelican Brief played by Julia Roberts
- Darby, a character who replaced Christopher Robin in the animated television show, ''My Friends Tigger and Pooh''