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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Of the manor house farm

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : From a village of mansions

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Selby

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from Old Norse selja ‘willow’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. The surname is now very common in Nottinghamshire.
  • Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish surname.

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