Keene

Keene is the 2,152nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,443 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,200.

By the numbers

People: 16,443
Rank: 2,152nd
How common: 1 in 18,200
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.4%
Black, not Hispanic 8.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Keene

Mimi Keene (born 1998)British actress
Donald Keene (1922–2019)Japanese/American academic
Raymond Keene (born 1948)English chess player, arbiter, organiser, journalist and author
Foxhall Keene (1867–1941)American racecar driver, equestrian, polo player, amateur golfer
James Keene (born 1985)English footballer
Tom Keene (1896–1963)American actor

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

Surnames like Keene

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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.