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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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’.

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