Meaning and Origin of: Keelan

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Beautiful and graceful

Girl name variations

Keely
Keeley
Kealy
Keel
Keeler

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Little and slender
  • Irish : Tiny, slender

Boy name variations

Keeland
Kealon
Kealian
Keilan
Keillan
Kelan
Caolan
Kelin
Kelen

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of Keelahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céileacháin, from céileachán, a diminutive of céile ‘companion’.
  • Welsh : habitational name for someone from any of various townships called Cilan, especially one in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire.