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Girl name origins & meanings
- Celtic : Ruler of the valley
Girl name variations
Boy name origins & meanings
- Celtic : Ruler of the valley
- Gaelic : Helmeted chief
- English : Royal obligation
- Irish : Handsome
- Scottish : Good-looking, fair
- English : Dignified
- Gaelic : Blond-haired
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Ken
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name for someone from either of two places named Kenn, in Devon and Avon, both of which take their name from the streams on which they stand.
- English : from Anglo-French ken, chen ‘dog’ (Old French chien), possibly applied as a nickname or as a metonymic name for someone who kept hunting dogs.
- Perhaps also a respelling of German Kenn, either from a short form of the personal name Konrad or a habitational name from Kenn, near Trier.