Durbin 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 Blaine Durbin (1886–1943), Major League Baseball player Chad Durbin (born 1977), Major League Baseball pitcher Deanna Durbin (1921–2013), Canadian singer and actress Dick Durbin (born 1944), the Minority Whip for the 113th United States Senate Elisha John Durbin (1800–1887), American Catholic priest, the "patriarch-priest of Kentucky" 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, American fantasy/horror novelist J. D. Durbin (born 1982), baseball pitcher James Durbin (1923–2012), British statistician and econometrician James Durbin (born 1989), American singer and guitarist, former American Idol contestant John Durbin, American actor John Price Durbin, Chaplain of the Senate, president of Dickinson College Mike Durbin, American ten-pin bowling player Richard M. Durbin (born 1960), computational biologist William Durbin (born 1953), American martial artist, especially of Kiyojute Ryu Winfield T. Durbin (1847–1928), Governor of Indiana, USA References French-language surnames