Kelson Family History

English: habitational name from Kelston (Somerset) derived from an Old English personal name Calf (genitive Calfes) or from Old English calf ‘calf’ (genitive calfes) + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. Alternatively, perhaps sometimes a habitational name from Kelstern (Lincolnshire) derived from the Old English personal name Cægel + Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’.

Americanized form of Norwegian and Danish Kjeldsen. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Keyle of uncertain origin.