McKeown
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Different form of McEwan (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
McKeown is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 7,357 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- IEIreland≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.5K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 12K
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)
- Record sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
7,357 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Different form of McEwan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname McKeown is found
(measured from records)McKeown 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 | — | 7,357 | 1 in 45K | 7.4K | McKeown | 383 |
| GB United Kingdom | #816 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | McKeown | 230 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | McKeown | 165 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | McKeown | 156 |
| IE Ireland | #408 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | McKeown | 90 |
| NZ New Zealand | #936 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | McKeown | 70 |
7,357 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)McKeown is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of McEwen.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)- Geraldine McEwanb. 1932GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1932-2015)
- Charles McKeownb. 1946GBBritish actor and screenwriter
- Kaylee McKeownb. 2001AUAustralian swimmer
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McKeown mean, and where does it come from?
- Different form of McEwan. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname McKeown?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named McKeown, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mckeown. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Ireland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name McKeown?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,357 people named McKeown in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is McKeown compared with other names?
- In Ireland, McKeown is the 408th 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/mckeownThe 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, “McKeown” — ranked 4529th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.