Selby

girls:

287 births since 1930

#5429 (5th percentile)

boys:

683 births since 1909

#3904 (15th percentile)

overall:

970 births since 1909

#6769 (13th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Selby".

1909 2022 19092022

Key Statistics

Total Births
287
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
1997
First Recorded
1930
Peak Percentile
1.2%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#581
Current Rank
#956
Female statistics
Total Births
683
Peak Births
24
Peak Year
1922
First Recorded
1909
Peak Percentile
3.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#268
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Selby

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Selby. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Selby is pronounced as SEHL-bee.

2
100.0%
SEHL-bee (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
S EH1 L B IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Selby. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Selby, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SIH-beh-lee (3 syllables)
1 name 156 births
S IH1 B EH0 L IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

SIH-buh-lee (3 syllables)
1 name 156 births
S IH1 B AH0 L IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S EH1 L B IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.