Frequency: (1295)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from Nether or Over Kellet in Lancashire or Kelleth in Cumbria, named from Old Norse kelda ‘spring’ + hlíth ‘slope’.
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