Keane Family History
- Keane Name Meaning
- Southern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catháin ‘descendant of Cathán’, a personal name from a diminutive of cath ‘battle’. Compare Kane. Irish: occasionally an Anglicized form of Ó Céin ‘descendant of Cian’, a personal name meaning ‘distant’, ‘long’. English: variant spelling of Keen. Americanized spelling of German Kühn(e) (see Kuehn).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 474,617 Historical Documents with Keane on Ancestry
- 207,246 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 115,397 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,107 Military Records
- 34,246 Immigration Records
- 99,621 Member Trees
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Number of Keane families
 95 - 188  32 - 94 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Keane families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keane census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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