Name: Keenan
Gender: Male
Usage: Keenan, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Keenan are in general originating from France, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Keenan is: Sharp, Little and ancient.
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Numerology of the first name Keenan: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Keenan is ranked on the 2,999th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 118900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Keenan has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Keenan (Cianán) is a male Irish name which means "ancient, distant". Keenan is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Cianán which is a diminutive of Cian. The Ó Cianáin clan (Keenan) were the traditional historians to the McGuire clan.
Recorded as O'Keenan and more usually Keenan, this is an Irish surname. Found mainly in the Ulster and northern counties of Fermanagh and Monaghan, it originates from the ancient pre 10th century Gaelic name O' Cianain meaning "The descendant of the faithful one" or similar. It may not have been entirely coincidence that the clan was famous throughout the Medieval Period for producing both high-ranking members of the church, and early historians, in several cases the same thing. The first recorded scribe was Adam O' Caianain, who was also the canon of Lisgool in Fermanagh. He is mentioned in the annals known as the "Four Masters" as being the historian to the famous Maguires of County Fermanagh. It is said that in 1659 in Petty's Census of Ireland that the spelling was found as MacKeenan, but if so this spelling is now completely extinct and research suggests that the original recording may have been a clerical mistake.
According to the United States' Social Security Administration [1], Keenan was the 607th most popular first name for newborns in the United States in 2006, which is a decrease from being the 362nd most popular in 1992.
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