Entry № 5367 · English origin

Kelsey Kelsey — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEL-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Ship victory (Kelsey Plum, WNBA champion; all-time NCAA scoring leader)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "ship victory (kelsey plum, wnba champion; all-time ncaa scoring leader)".

Kelsey is from the Old English personal name Cēol (ship) + sige (victory). Kelsey Grammer is male (Frasier). Kelsey Asbille — Yellowstone. Kelsey Mitchell — Indiana Fever player. Kelsey Riggs — Big Ten Network sportscaster.

Subject of countless WNBA retrospectives.

Ship victory (Kelsey Plum, WNBA champion; all-time NCAA scoring leader) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Kelsey
Transliteration
Kelsey
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɛl.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kelsey stands.

Kelsey does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kelseys before her.

Real people
Kelsey Plum
American WNBA champion.
born 1994
In fiction
Kelsey
Yellowstone.
2018

Names connected to Kelsey.

The number behind Kelsey.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kelsey reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.