Selby
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#13,573
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
5
All-time births
688
1% of them in 2025
More common than
86%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1922
- 24 births
- Best rank
- #1,583
- in 1922
- First recorded
- 1909
- #1,653 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1947
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 76 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 192224#1,583Peak
- 192121#1,757
- 191820#1,759
- 191617#1,836
- 192417#2,035
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,583 in 1922 · peak births 24 in 1922
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 70% boys■ 30% girls
688 boys · 293 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Selby has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.