McKean is a surname of Irish origin.
It appears in place names across the United States, most notably McKean County in Pennsylvania.
The name is perhaps best known through Erin McKean, lexicographer and founder of the online dictionary Wordnik: I've been reading McKean's work on descriptive lexicography.
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McKean is a surname of Irish origin.
It appears in place names across the United States, most notably McKean County in Pennsylvania.
The name is perhaps best known through Erin McKean, lexicographer and founder of the online dictionary Wordnik: I've been reading McKean's work on descriptive lexicography.
1. surname — Scottish, Of that northern kingdom; Irish (Of the Emerald Isle); Gaelic (Celtic linguistic tradition); clan (Related group sharing ancestry); patronymic · genealogy · ancestry · lineage · heritage · descent · bloodline · family · kinship · tartan
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Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/McKean