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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