Keane

Keane is the 3,304th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,685 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 28,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,685
Rank: 3,304th
How common: 1 in 28,000
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Keane described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Keane

Robbie Keane (born 1980)Irish association football player and manager
Roy Keane (born 1971)Irish football manager
Michael Keane (born 1993)English association football player, born 1993
Margaret Keane (1927–2022)American artist
Will Keane (born 1993)Irish-English footballer
Glen Keane (born 1954)American writer and artist
Dolores Keane (1953–2026)Irish singer
John B. Keane (1928–2002)Irish playwright, novelist and essayist

People named Keane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Keane

Also a first name

Keane has been given to 1,486 American babies as a first name since 1950, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.