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Wiktionary

  1. Shelbynoun

    transferred from the surname.

  2. Shelbynoun

    Any one of several cities, townships, and counties.

  3. Etymology: From placenames, possibly "ledge/willow village".

Wikidata

  1. Shelby

    Shelby is a small city and the county seat of Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 20,429 at the 2010 census.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SHELBY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shelby is ranked #2912 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Shelby surname appeared 12,303 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Shelby.

    58.2% or 7,163 total occurrences were White.
    36% or 4,432 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 298 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 287 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.5% or 70 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 54 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shelby in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shelby in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Shelby in a Sentence

  1. Paul Greene:

    Her urine was consistent with the consumption of pork that was containing high levels of nandrolone. We told this to the lab before her B-sample was tested. Under the rules they were supposed to account for it. When your urinary markers are where they were with Shelby’s – in the very, very low range – it is impossible for the machine that does the testing to distinguish between these two, there’s a way to do that called an atypical finding and that’s what we think should have been done in Shelby’s case and it wasn’t.

  2. Mayor James Latimore:

    We can bring the police department back ; we can go with Shelby County for a year and then bring the police department back once we've had time to interview people to find the right people to build positions.

  3. Frederick Simeone:

    She would rebuff anybody who presented themselves as interested in the car, carroll Shelby himself went to visit her to see the car, and she wouldn't even open her screen door to talk to him. It was widely known she had it, but it was also widely known that you couldn't communicate with her... people had given up going for it.

  4. Mike Nellis:

    If you quote me describing Shelby and Liz, please use the word 'geniuses,' because that's what they are.

  5. Shelby Houlihan:

    I feel completely devastated, lost, broken, angry, confused and betrayed by the very sport that I've loved and poured Shelby Houlihan into just to see how good I was, i want to be very clear. I have never taken any performance enhancing substances. And that includes that of which I am being accused.

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