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First name origins & meanings:

1. Old English: River landing place
2. Scottish: Brave; ship island
3. Scandinavian: Ceol's island; beautiful island; from the ship's island; shipping harbor
4. Scottish: Brave; ship island
5. Scandinavian: Island of ships
6. English: Island

First name variations: Chelde, Chelsa, Chelsee, Chelseigh, Chelsi, Chalsie, Chelsie, Chellsie, Chelsy, Chelsey, Kelsie, Kelsy, Chelsea, Kelcy, Chelsea, Kelsee, Kellsey, Kelsy, Kelcie, Kelsi, Kelsie, Kelsy, Kelcie, Kelson, Kelton, Kels, Kelcy, Kellsey, Kelsee, Kelsie, Chelsea, Kelsy, Kelsi, Kelsy, Kelsie, Kelse, Kelsi, Kelso

Last name origins & meanings:

1. 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. Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
3. William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.

Famous people with this first name: Kelsey Grammer

Famous people who gave their babies this name: Kelly McGillis

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