McKeen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McKeen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Northern Irish variant of McKean.
- CACanada≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 86Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 95K
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
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
2,370 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Northern Irish variant of McKean.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)McKeen 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 | 2,370 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | McKeen | 278 |
| CA Canada | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | McKeen | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | McKeen | 90 |
| IT Italy | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | McKeen | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | McKeen | 59 |
| IE Ireland | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | McKeen | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | McKeen | 19 |
2,370 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. 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)- David MacKeenb. 1839CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- William R. McKeen Jr.b. 1869USAmerican businessman (1869–1946)
- Robert McKeenb. 1884NZNew Zealand politician (1884-1974)
- Charles McKeenb. 1885CACanadian politician
- Stanley McKeenb. 1897CACanadian politician (1897–1966)
- Jock McKeenb. 1946CACanadian physician
- William McKeenb. 1954USAmerican academic
- Nery McKeenb. 1957CUCuban middle-distance runner
- Angus McKeenb. 1969IEIrish rugby union player
- Stan McKeenb. 1982CACanadian rugby union player
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,919 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,094 |
| 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 McKeen mean, and where does it come from?
- Northern Irish variant of McKean. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does McKeen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named McKeen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mckeen.
- How common is the name McKeen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,370 people named McKeen in 2010, about 1 in 140 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/mckeenThe 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, “McKeen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.