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Shelby
Pronounced /ˈʃɛlbi/
Rank in 2024
#656
Born in 2024
445
Peak year
1991 · #33
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:50 in 2024 (#2,636)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 445 girls were named Shelby, about 1 in every 3,625.
- It peaked in 1991 with 10,220 babies, ranked #33.
- It first shows up in the records in 1913.
- 148,382 girls have been named Shelby since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Shelby per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 2.2Millennials1981–96
- 1.8Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 112 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 9,728 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,099 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,970 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Millennials: 61,780 babies, 2.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 53,510 babies, 1.84 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,183 babies, 0.45 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a medieval name, of obscure origin, yet likely an alteration of Middle English Selby, Salibi (“dweller of the willow place”), from salwe (“willow, sallow”) + -by (“settlement, farm”).
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈʃɛlbi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Shelby, CC BY-SA 4.0.