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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. Sandy Shelby:

    There was no air conditioning. There was no water in any of the water buckets. The litter boxes had zero litter. It was just feces that was in them. Police and animal control officials initially received a call from neighbors complaining about the smell coming from the home. When they first arrived, authorities told FOX4 they found a van in the driveway filled with dogs. When officials arrived they said they found a van filled with dogs. ( FOX4 News) The van was not running. The windows were rolled up and just cracked a tiny little bit, there were 14 crates full of animals inside. Sandy Shelby said authorities are investigating whether the homeowner got the animals from various shelters with the intention of rescuing them. I think that people start out with good intentions, I really do.

  2. Amanda Frickel:

    The passengers that were able to be transported from the derailment to the shelters were accounted for, fed,( and) given meds if theirs were lost or missing, then they were safely bussed to Shelby MT for the evening.

  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. 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.

  5. Steven Taylor:

    We’ve not seen a lot of quality Democratic candidates for Senate because Sen. [Richard] Shelby and Sen. Sessions, they were so strongly ensconced in their positions that the Democratic nominee was most often a more fringe candidate and not taken very seriously, jones doesn’t fall in that category – he has a background as a prosecutor, he has linkage to Civil Rights prosecution for the bombers in Birmingham. This makes him a more serious and significant candidate.

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