Keané
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Keané is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 85th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Probably borrowed from Irish Ó Catháin (“descendant of Cathán”).
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 8.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 415 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
11,459 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, 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 Keane in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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)
Probably borrowed from Irish Ó Catháin (“descendant of Cathán”).
Sources 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Irish family names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keané 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 | — | 11,459 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Keane | 415 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | Keane | 220 |
| IE Ireland | #85 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Keane | 129 |
| AU Australia | #788 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 1 | Keane | 171 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Keane | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Keane | 67 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 17 | 1 in 6K | 17 | — | 3 |
11,459 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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 Keané mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably borrowed from Irish Ó Catháin (“descendant of Cathán”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Irish family names and 4 other sources.
- Is Keané a male or female name?
- Keané is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Keané have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Keané, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keane.
- How common is the name Keané?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,459 people named Keané in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Keané compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Keané is the 85th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Keané?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kean%C3%A9The 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, “Keané” — the 85th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.