Kane
/keɪn/noun
A surname and given name, and a less common spelling of the Irish surname Cáin/Catháin in some contexts.
Did you know?As a surname, Kane is often treated as an Anglicized form of several different Irish names, so its history is less one straight line and more a web of separate ancestral branches.
Etymological Timeline
Old Irish
Irish
Ó Catháin
“descendant of Cathán; a clan surname”
Middle Irish
Irish
Cathán
“a personal name, probably from a diminutive of cath, 'battle'”
Early Modern English
English
Kane
“Anglicized surname form in English records”
Modern English
English
Kane
“a surname and given name”