Darbon
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/daɾβon/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Darbon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx. (i) possibly a variant of Darben . (ii) alternatively, possibly of French origin, a locative name denoting someone ‘from Arbon’ in Haute Garonne (d’Arbon). 669.
- FRFrance≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 480Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 771K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled D'Arbon in AU Australia.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Middx. (i) possibly a variant of Darben . (ii) alternatively, possibly of French origin, a locative name denoting someone ‘from Arbon’ in Haute Garonne (d’Arbon). 669
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Darbon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 111 | Darbon | 179 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Darbon | 78 |
| AR Argentina | 59 | 1 in 771K | 59 | — | — |
| MU Mauritius | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Darbon | 6 |
| US United States | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | listed | Darbon | 43 |
| AU Australia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | D'Arbon | 18 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Darbon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Occitan, mole
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- André Darbonb. 1874FR(1874-1943)
- Darbonb. 1879FRFrench singer
- François Darbonb. 1915FRFrench actor
- Antoine Darbonb. 1916FRsurgeon General of the French Army
- Hubert Darbonb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Alain Darbonb. 1969FRFrench politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 153 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 135 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 123 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 111 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 69 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 59 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Darbon mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx. (i) possibly a variant of Darben . (ii) alternatively, possibly of French origin, a locative name denoting someone ‘from Arbon’ in Haute Garonne (d’Arbon). 669 Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Darbon?
- In Spanish /daɾβon/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Darbon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Darbon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darbon.
- How common is the name Darbon?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 59 people named Darbon, about 1 in 771 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darbonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Darbon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.