Keen

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• English : from Kene, a short form of the Old English personal name Cēn or Cyne, based on Old English cēne ‘wise’, ‘brave’, ‘proud’.
• Americanized spelling of German Kühn (see Kuehn).
• Robert Keayne (d. 1655) was one of the founders of Boston MA, and is buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground there.