Meaning and Origin of: Kelso

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : Island of ships
  • English : Island

Boy name variations

Kelsey
Kelsy
Kelsie
Kelse
Kelsi

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’.