Durbin /ˈdɜːrbᵻn/ is a very rare male first name and a very popular surname, according to the 1990 U.S. Census. The surname Durbin is of French origin from a place called D'urban or D'urbin in Languedoc. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Somerset (36.9 times the British average), followed by Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, Brecknockshire, Glamorgan, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire and Warwickshire.
Allison Durbin (born 1950), New Zealand-born Australian former pop singer
Chad Durbin (born 1977), Major League Baseball pitcher
Deanna Durbin (1921–2013), Canadian singer and actress
Dick Durbin (born 1944), the Majority Whip for the 113th United States Senate
Elisha John Durbin
Evan Durbin (1906–1948), British economist and left-wing politician
Frank Durbin (1895–1999), one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War
Frederic S. Durbin
J. D. Durbin
James Durbin (1923–2012), British statistician and econometrician
John Durbin
Kid Durbin, Major League Baseball player
Mike Durbin
Richard M. Durbin (born 1960), computational biologist
William Durbin
Winfield T. Durbin
