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Selby
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Origin Of The Surname Selby
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Meaning Of The Surname Selby
From the Town with the Farm by the Willow Trees
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Interesting
Facts About
Selby
Selby is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old Norse ‘seljaby’ meaning ‘farm by the willow trees’. |
Selby Statistics
Selby is the number 1781 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,104 share the surname Selby in the UK.
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