Keogh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic Mac Eochaidh, son of Eochaidh, from each “horse”
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkiaʊɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Keogh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 8.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 20K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from Irish Gaelic Mac Eochaidh, son of Eochaidh, from each “horse”
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keogh 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 | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Keogh | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Keogh | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Keogh | 178 |
| AU Australia | #786 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Keogh | 179 |
| US United States | — | 2,612 | 1 in 127K | 2.8K | Keogh | 324 |
| IE Ireland | #131 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | listed | Keogh | 143 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Keogh | 61 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; the irish-family-names-grehan-1993 register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Keogh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, MacEochaidh, from Eochaidh; septs in Limerick/Ballymackeogh, Moyfinn near Athlone and Roscommon, and Leinster (later Wexford); related to the O’Byrnes.
as a nameIrish family names
In English, savings plan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Keoghb. 1740IEIrish merchant and political activist
- Myles Keoghb. 1840IEUnion United States Army officer (1840-1876)
- Barbara Keoghb. 1929GBBritish actress (1929-2005)
- Danny Keoghb. 1948UGSouth African actor
- John Keoghb. 1963IEIrish-German actor
- Richard Keoghb. 1986IEIrish association football player
- Andy Keoghb. 1986IEIrish association football player
- Vance Joyb. 1987AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer-songwriter
- Aifric Keoghb. 1992IEIrish rower
- Liz Keogh PalmerAUcostume designer from Australia
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,874 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,329 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| IE Ireland | Irish Family Names (Grehan, 1993) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Keogh mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Mac Eochaidh, son of Eochaidh, from each “horse” Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Keogh?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkiaʊɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Keogh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Keogh in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keogh.
- How common is the name Keogh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,612 people named Keogh in 2010, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
- How common is Keogh compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Keogh is the 131st most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keoghThe 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, “Keogh” — the 131st most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.