as a Last Name
- 13,157
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Kelsey
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from Cēol, an Old English personal name, or alternatively from an unattested Old Scandinavian word, kæl ‘wedge-shaped piece of land’, + ēg ‘island’, ‘area of dry land in a marsh’.
| 2,377th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,157
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Kelsey per capita
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