Keenan

At the 2020 census, 18,965 Americans bore the surname Keenan — 1,859th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,800.

By the numbers

People: 18,965
Rank: 1,859th
How common: 1 in 15,800
Per 100,000: 6.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Keenan

Maynard James Keenan (born 1964)American singer
Nicolás Keenan (born 1997)Argentine field hockey player
Frank Keenan (1858–1929)American actor and film director
Jessica Keenan Wynn (born 1986)American actress and singer
Mike Keenan (born 1949)Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager

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

Surnames like Keenan

Also a first name

Keenan has been given to 18,515 American babies as a first name since 1942, peaking in 1997. 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.