Kelsey Family History
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Kelsey Name Meaning
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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Kersey, Akeley, Kimsey, Elsey, Hessey, Vessey, Keeley, Keesey, Kellen