Killeen
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From the Irish Gaelic personal name Cillín, literally little Ceallach
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Killeen is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 106K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 52K
- CACanada≈1 in 76K
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)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Irish Gaelic personal name Cillín, literally little Ceallach.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Killeen 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 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Killeen | 5 |
| US United States | 3,146 | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Killeen | 306 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | listed | Killeen | 147 |
| CA Canada | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Killeen | 76 |
| RU Russia | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Killeen | 7 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Killeen | 3 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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)
Killeen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Cillm, a dim. of Ceallach (see Kelly i). The name was borne by various early Ir. saints, including the leader of a 7th-cent. mission to Franconia and Thuringia, hence the popularity of the given name Kilian in medieval central Europe, from which several surnames are derived. Var.: Killen. Cogns.: Ger.: Kil(l)ian; Kilius, Kilgus; Kill. Pol.: Kiljan, Kiljanski. Czech: Kilian.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Cillm, a pet form of Ceallach (see Kelly). The name was borne by various early Irish saints, including the leader of a 7th-century mission to Franconia and Thuringia, hence the popularity of the personal name Kilian in medieval central Europe.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Cilltn, a dim. of Ceallach (see Kelly i). The name was borne by various early Ir. saints, including the leader of a yth-cent. mission to Franconia and Thuringia, hence the popularity of the given name Kilian in medieval central Europe, from which several surnames are derived. Var.. Killen
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- Caroline Killeenb. 1926USAmerican politician
- Len Killeenb. 1938ZASouth African basketball player, and rugby union and rugby league footballer
- Peter Richard Killeenb. 1942USAmerican psychologist
- Richard Killeenb. 1946NZNew Zealand artist (1946— )
- Gretel Killeenb. 1963AUAustralian television host, author and comedian
- Graham Killeenb. 1980USAmerican film director
- Liam Killeenb. 1982GBEnglish cyclist
- Lewis Killeenb. 1982GBEnglish footballer (born 1982)
- Patrick Killeenb. 1990CACanadian ice hockey goaltender
- Mark Killeenb. 2000GBBritish actor
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 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,945 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Killeen mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Irish Gaelic personal name Cillín, literally little Ceallach. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Killeen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Killeen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled killeen.
- How common is the name Killeen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,146 people named Killeen in 2010, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/killeenThe 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, “Killeen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.