Last name: KEANE
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Last name frequency
KEANE : This last name is indexed 81,102 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KEANE : 1: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catháin ‘descendant of Cathán’ a personal name from a diminutive of cath ‘battle’. Compare Kane.2: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céin ‘descendant of Cian’ a personal name meaning ‘distant long’. Compare Kane.3: Americanized form of German Kühn(e) (see Kuehn).
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