Cealey meaning | Last name Cealey origin

Lastname is a variant form of Seely. The happy or prosperous person; the good, simple man.

A form of Seeley. The happy or prosperous person; the good, simple man.

Lastname Cealey is variant of Seeley. This word, in the forms of sely and silly, occurs in Old English writers from Chaucer to Milton, in the sense of harmless or simple. The word silly, the etymology of which has been debated, is much perverted from its original meaning, and the word 'simple' is now undergoinga similar degradation. 2. Might be derived from Anglo-Saxon sél, prosperous.