Ward (surname) Ward (surname) Ward is a popular Old English origin and Old Gaelic origin surname dating to before the Norman conquest of 1066 and Ireland, common in English-speaking countries. The Old English name derives from an occupational surname for a civil guard/keeper of the watch, or alternately as a topographical surname from the word "werd" ("marsh"). The Old Gaelic surname derives from "Mac an Bhaird" ("son of the Bard"), a bard being a storyteller or poet. The two names are completely unrelated ethnically one being Germanic and the other Celtic. The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1176. In
Keller (surname) Munster. The Anglicized surname in Ireland has many different spellings including: O'Kelleher, Kelaher, Kelliher, Kellar, Keller, McKeller, MacKeller, and O'Keller. People whose surname is or was Keller include: Keller (surname) Keller is a surname with several origins. The Irish version, which is the most ancient in origin, comes from the Gaelic surname Ó Ceilechair. In modern German Keller means cellar or basement, but historically it designates a cellarer or winemaker. A Latinized form of "Keller" is "Cellarius". Keller is an Anglicized version of the Old Irish surname Ó Céilechair (meaning descendant of Céilechair). Céilechair was descended from Cennétig mac Lorcáin