Kells Family History
Kells Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: from a personal name based on Old Norse ketill ‘sacrificial cauldron helmet’ with post-medieval excrescent English -s. In Scotland it may also be of topographic origin from a place called as ‘the cauldron’. English: variant of Kell with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022