The kelsey Surname
kelsey Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from Ceol, an Old English personal name, or alternatively from an unattested Old Scandinavian word, kæl ‘wedge-shaped piece of land’, + eg ‘island’, ‘area of dry land in a marsh’.
- Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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