Keeney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of Swiss German KuhnI, Kiihne (see Kuehn), or German Kiene or Kiener
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Keeney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 11Kas Kinney(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 12Kas Kinney
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15Kas Kinney
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keeney itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 464 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6M (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Kinney, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kinney in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 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)
Americanized spelling of Swiss German KuhnI, Kiihne (see Kuehn), or German Kiene or Kiener.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keeney 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Kinney | 9 |
| US United States | #924 | 31,558as Kinney | 1 in 11K | 32K | Kinney | 464 |
| KP North Korea | #435 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Kinney | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Kinney | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kinney | 110 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kinney | 114 |
| KR South Korea | #374 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Keeney | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Kinney | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | Kinney | 23 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frank Keeneyb. 1882Biography (1882-1970)
- Russell W. Keeneyb. 1897USAmerican politician
- Barnaby Keeneyb. 1914USAmerican academic administrator
- Ralph L. Keeneyb. 19441944-
- Bradford Keeneyb. 1951USAmerican therapist and healer
- Scott Keeneyb. 1964USAmerican entrepreneur
- Mike Keeneyb. 1974USAmerican association football manager
- Shelley Keeneyb. 1979USAmerican politician
- DJ Skeeb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican DJ
- Maddison Keeneyb. 1996AUAustralian diver
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.3K | #3,813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.9K | #3,677 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.6K | #4,009 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keeney mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of Swiss German KuhnI, Kiihne (see Kuehn), or German Kiene or Kiener. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Keeney have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 175 thousand people named Kinney in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Keeney most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keeney is densest in Spain — about 1 in 3.6 million people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Keeney?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14 people named Keeney, about 1 in 3.6 million residents.
- How common is Keeney compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Keeney is the 374th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keeneyThe 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, “Keeney” — the 374th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.