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As an Irish surname Keon is a shortened form of MacKeon, which originally meant "son of Ewan." (See MacLysaght's The Surnames of Ireland.) I would assume that if you are named after a hockey player, that is the most likely derivation of his given name. There also is a possible Farsi (Persian or Iranian) derivation, and I think the name has also been independently invented in the African-American community as a rhyming form of Deon, but neither of those seems likely for a hockey player. Do you know anything else about this hockey player, such as his surname or nationality, that would help someone to track down the most likely derivation?

This message was edited 9/20/2005, 9:02 AM