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Shelby

Pronounced /ˈʃɛlbi/

Rank in 2024
#2,636
Born in 2024
50
Peak year
1991 · #427
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:445 in 2024 (#656)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 50 boys were named Shelby, about 1 in every 34,306.
  • It peaked in 1991 with 524 babies, ranked #427.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 16,404 boys 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.

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,983 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Silent: 2,694 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,666 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,594 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,215 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,506 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 467 babies, 0.02 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
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/ˈʃɛlbi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Shelby, CC BY-SA 4.0.