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The surname McKeon was first found in County Sligo (Irish: Sligeach), in the province of Connacht in Northwestern Ireland, where the first people to use this surname are thought to have originated. Soon thereafter, the name was also found in neighboring Leitrim.
The Mckeon family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Mckeon families were found in USA in 1880. In 1840 there were 17 Mckeon families living in New York. This was about 85% of all the recorded Mckeon's in USA.
This last name is the 38,671 st most commonly occurring surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 535,888 people. This last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 60 percent of McKeon live; 60 percent live in North America and 60 percent live in Anglo-North America.
The most commonly-observed ancestry found in people with the surname Mckeon is British & Irish, which comprises 61.4% of all ancestry found in people with the surname. The next two most common ancestries are French & German (13.0%) and Italian (8.0%).
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McKeon. McKeon and MacKeon are Irish surnames originating both from the Gaelic Mac Eoghain ("Son of Eoghan") and Mac Eoin ("Son of John"), which are pronounced identically. Other variants in English include MacEoin and McKeown. Notable people with the name include:
Last name: McKeon SDB Popularity ranking: 5305 This Irish surname which originated, it is claimed, in County Sligo, uses the Gaelic diminutive 'Eoghain', translating as 'Little Owen' or perhaps 'son of Owen' as its basic form.
