as a Last Name
- 4,073
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Killen
Meaning & Origins
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coilín ‘son of Colin’. According to MacLysaght, the name was that of a gallowglass family from Scotland taken to Ireland by the O’Donnells.
| 8,144th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,073
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Killen per capita
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