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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English, Scottish, and northern Irish : probably a variant of Jelley.
  • German and Frisian : from a Germanic personal name composed with gelt-, cognate with the verb gelten ‘sacrifice’, ‘repay’.
  • Norwegian : unexplained.

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