Last name: KILLEEN

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KILLEEN : This last name is indexed 20,340 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

KILLEEN : Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cillín ‘descendant of Cillín’ a pet form of the personal name Ceallach (see Kelly). The name was borne by various early Irish saints including the leader of a 7th-century mission to Franconia and Thuringia hence the popularity of the personal name Kilian in medieval central Europe.

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