Girl name origins & meanings
- Gaelic : Beautiful and graceful
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English c̄ ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjǫlr ‘ridge’.
- Irish : reduced form of McKeel.
- Swiss German : probably a variant of Kehl 2.
- Americanized spelling of German Kühl (see Kuhl) or Kiehl, Kiel (see Kiel).