as a Last Name
- 7,785
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Kersey
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Kersey in Suffolk, recorded in Domesday Book as Careseia, probably from Old English cærs ‘watercress’ + ēg ‘island’, ‘area of dry land in a marsh’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,785
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Kersey per capita
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