Killeen

• Killian, Killion

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cillín.

Killeen (countable and uncountable, plural Killeens)

1. A surname from Irish.
2. The name of a few villages in Ireland.
3. A city in Bell County, Texas, United States.
   • 2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2025:

     The Killeen Police Department told CNN they became involved after a request from Animal Control but didn’t offer more details on how the arrest unfolded.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Killeen is the 10245^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3146 individuals. Killeen is most common among White (95.26%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Killeen”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 304.