Keënen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Keënen is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 879 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Durham. from Ó Cianáin, see Keenan .
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 160Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 378K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 162K (inferred from the name graph)
879 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Keenen in US United States, ZA South Africa, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Durham. from Ó Cianáin, see Keenan .
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Keënen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 879 | 1 in 378K | 873 | Keenen | 169 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Keenen | 22 |
| PH Philippines | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Keenen | 13 |
| CA Canada | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Keenen | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Keenen | 35 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Keenen | 8 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
879 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keënen mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Durham. from Ó Cianáin, see Keenan . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Keënen a male or female name?
- Keënen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Keënen?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 879 people named Keënen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keenen. After it come South Africa, Philippines, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Keënen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 879 people named Keënen in 2020, about 1 in 378 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Keënen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ke%C3%ABnenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Keënen” — ranked 13666th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.