Last name: SELBY
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SELBY : This last name is indexed 71,313 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SELBY : 1: English (Nottinghamshire) and Scottish: habitational name from Selby (Yorkshire). The placename may derive from Old English sele ‘willow copse’ sometimes alternating with salh ‘willow’ + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead village’.2: Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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