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keenan Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cianáin ‘son of Cianán’, a personal name from a diminutive of cian ‘distant’, ‘long’, or possibly of Mac Fhinghin ‘fair offspring’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of keenan Families in the US in 1920
Number of keenan families
 401-799
 134-400		 1-133
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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