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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Of the manor house farm

Girl name variations

Selden

Selden

0 % this year
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Seldon

Seldon

0 % this year
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Selwin

Selwin

0 % this year
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Selwyn

Selwyn

0 % this year
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Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : From a village of mansions

Boy name variations

Selbey

Selbey

0 % this year
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Shelbey

Shelbey

0 % this year
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Shelbie

Shelbie

- 13% this year
Masculine
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Shelby

Shelby

- 8% this year
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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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