About the name Keenan
Keenan belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Keenan first appears in Social Security records in 1942. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #354 in 1997, and in 2024 166 babies received the name — 18,025 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.