Keough
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Eochaidh.
Proper noun
Keough (plural Keoughs)
- A surname from Irish.
- 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Near the end of Sasquatch Sunset, the gloriously weird feature from David and Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough wordlessly conveys a slowly creeping moment of profound existential despair that crushes your heart with its bleakness.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Keough is the 7243rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4605 individuals. Keough is most common among White (93.9%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Keough”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 294.