Selby

Where Selby comes from

From Old Norse selja (“willow, sallow”) + býr (“settlement, farm”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Selby
  • From a surname
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1909
    Debut at its peak, #1,440
    #1,440 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1910
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 2025
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Selby hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.