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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Beautiful and graceful

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Little and slender
  • Irish : Tiny, slender

How Popular Is The Name Keelan

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of Keelahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céileacháin, from céileachán, a diminutive of céile ‘companion’.
  • Welsh : habitational name for someone from any of various townships called Cilan, especially one in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire.

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