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Keane Name Meaning
Southern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Catháin ‘descendant of Cathán’, a personal name from
a diminutive of cath ‘battle’. Compare Kane.Irish:
occasionally an Anglicized form of Ó Céin ‘descendant of
Cian’, a personal name meaning ‘distant’, ‘long’.English:
variant spelling of Keen.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Keane
Name Distribution of Keane Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Keane families
 199 - 396  67 - 198 |
 1 - 66  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Keane families
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95 - 188 32 - 94 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Keane families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keane census records
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Keane Family Origin
Keane Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Keane
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Keane Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Keane census records
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Keane Civil War Service Records
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