Keen

At the 2020 census, 16,948 Americans bore the surname Keen — 2,078th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,600.

By the numbers

People: 16,948
Rank: 2,078th
How common: 1 in 17,600
Per 100,000: 5.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Keen

Dafne Keen (born 2005)Spanish-British actress
Steve Keen (born 1953)Australian economist
Malcolm Keen (1887–1970)British actor
Geoffrey Keen (1916–2005)English actor
Andrew Keen (born 1960)American journalist

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

Surnames like Keen

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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.