Last name: SHEEN
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SHEEN : This last name is indexed 17,441 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHEEN : 1: English: habitational name from either of two places called Sheen (Surrey Staffordshire) both of which probably derive from Old English scēon dative plural form of scēo ‘shelter’.2: English: nickname for an attractive person from Middle English shene ‘fair comely handsome’ (Old English scēne). Compare Shown 2 Shine and Shinn all from different reflexes of the same word.3: Irish: shortened form of Sheehan.4: Irish: variant of McShane.5: Korean: variant of Shin 1.6: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 沈 see Shen 1.
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