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The selby Surname

selby Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The selby name in History

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Distribution of selby Families in the US in 1920
Number of selby families
 86-169
 29-85		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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