Keane

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• 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).