The keel Surname
keel Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English c¯ ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjolr ‘ridge’.
- Irish: reduced form of McKeel.
- Swiss German: probably a variant of Kehl 2.
- Americanized spelling of German Kühl (see Kuhl) or Kiehl, Kiel (see Kiel).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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