Etymology

Kiely

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Ó Cadhla
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  1. Irish · derived fromÓ Cadhla“descendant of Cadhla”
  2. English todayKiely

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cadhla (“descendant of Cadhla”), a byname from cadhla (“beautiful”). It could also be a variant of Keeley.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.