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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of Sheehan.
  • English : nickname for an attractive person, from Middle English schene ‘fair’, ‘comely’, ‘handsome’.
  • English : habitational name from Sheen in Surrey and Staffordshire, both named in Old English with the plural of scēo ‘shed’, ‘shelter’.

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