Digby
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About Digby
Digby is a place-name in Lincolnshire turned surname turned quirky first name that is starting to get some attention. In fact, it ranked in the UK Top 1000 in a recent year where it fits in with the likes of Barnaby, Rupert, and Wilbur.
The name has been used for characters in Joanna Quinn's novel, The Whale Bone Theatre, in the TV soap, Holby City and the game Animal Crossing.
A similar name is Diggory, found in both Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, Hardy's Return of the Native, and C.S Lewis's Narnia novels (spelled Digory). They both have a clunky, old-man vibe, but also share sounds with the modern Briggs and Riggs.
Pronounced DIG-bee.
As of October 2026, Digby ranked #12974 in US births in 2009 SSA, peaked at #11011 in 2006.
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Digby on lists
Famous Digbys
- Digby Smith
English military historian
- Digby Fairweather
English jazz cornettist
- Digby Marritt Jones
Baron Jones of Birmingham, British Minister of State for Trade and Investment
- Digby Denham
Australian politician, former premier of Queensland
Digby in pop culture
- Digby
dog on TV's "Pushing Daisies"
- Digby
Nova Scotia, Canada
- Arthur Rowe/"Digby
" central character in "The Ministry of Fear" (1943) by Graham Greene
- Digby
character in video game "Animal Crossing: New Leaf"