Keating (surname)

Keating (Irish spelling: Céitinn) is an Irish and English family name.

Surname variations

Common variations on the Keating surname include Caton, Kaitting, Kating, Keatinge, Keaton, Keith, Keting, Keatting, McKeating, Keatings and O'Keating. A Spanish variation, Cienfuegos,[1][2] also exists.

Notable people

Fictional people

  • Lieutenant Colonel Harry Keating, in The Mauritius Command, a 1977 novel by Patrick O'Brian, based on the real life Henry Sheehy Keating
  • John Keating, played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society
  • John Paul Keating, played by Shaun Evans in the television series Teachers
  • Layla Keating, played by Greta Onieogou in the television series All American
  • Peter Keating, in The Fountainhead, a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand

Multiple characters in How to Get Away With Murder:

Keating genealogy

DNA projects and one name studies

Published Keating genealogies

  • Keating, John Percy, 1855-1920 (1918). John Keating and His Forebears. Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Keating of Wexford.
  • Lodge, John; Archdall, Mervyn (1789). "John (b. circa 1150, 6th son of Odo of Carmarthenshire, Wales) from whom those of the name Keating in this Kingdom derive". The peerage of Ireland: or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom. Vol. II. p. 183.

References

  1. Keating, John Percy (1918). John Keating and his Forebears. Records of the American Catholic Historical Society. p. 4. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. Roche, James (1850). Critical and miscellaneous essays, by an octogenarian. Oxford University: Privately Printed. p. 183. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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