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The keane Surname

keane Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catháin ‘descendant of Cathán’, a personal name from a diminutive of cath ‘battle’. Compare Kane.
  2. Irish: occasionally an Anglicized form of Ó Céin ‘descendant of Cian’, a personal name meaning ‘distant’, ‘long’.
  3. English: variant spelling of Keen.
  4. Americanized spelling of German Kühn(e) (see Kuehn).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The keane name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the keane family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of keane Families in the US in 1920
Number of keane families
 199-396
 67-198		 1-66
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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