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Shelby

Shelby ranks #279 out of 693 girl cat names in our data (the #1 girl cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 8 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #101 among girl dog names.
Shelby's popularity trend

Shelby's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2012.

0.02%0.04%0.06%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
8
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#279
of 693 girl cat names
5-year rank move
−52
2014 → 2019
Gender split
100% female
100% female0% male

Gender split comes from 29 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Shelby mean?
/ˈʃɛlbi/2 syllablesOrigin: a surname

Shelby started out as an English surname built from a place name: "salwe," meaning willow or sallow, joined with "-by," an Old Norse-derived word for a settlement or farm. Put together, it means something like "willow farm" or "settlement among the willows." It moved from surname to given name over the 20th century and now reads as gender-neutral, popular on both sides of the Atlantic.

Shelby has a breezy, athletic ring to it, at home on a scrappy shelter mutt or a sleek working dog. It suits a companion with an easygoing, unfussy personality.

Etymology & pronunciation from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Where Shelby shows up

Cats named Shelby per place, against that place's total.

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.03%
SeattleWA, US0.02%

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