# Digby (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/digby/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,475 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,648 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 209,319 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.5% (1,411 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈdɪɡ.bi/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English dīc (“dyke”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement”). The town in Nova Scotia is named after admiral Robert Digby (1732 - 1815).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Digby in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 15% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Digby in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.

## People named Digby

- Jane Digby, British aristocrat
- Pamela Harriman, American diplomat (1920-1997)

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.