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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : Island of ships
  • English : Island

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Kelso

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from Kelso on the river Tweed in Roxburghshire, perhaps so named from Old English cealc ‘chalk’ + hōh ‘ridge’, ‘spur’.

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