Kenna

See also: kenna

English

Etymology

• As a Scottish surname, shortened from McKenna.
• As a Manx and Irish surname, from Ó Cionaoith (“descendant of Cionaoth”), a name usually Anglicized as Kenneth.

Proper noun

Kenna

1. A surname from Irish, a variant anglicization of Ó Cionaodha (Kinney).
2. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic], a variant anglicization of Mac Cionaodha (McKenna).
3. An unincorporated community in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States; named for railroad official E. D. Kenna.
4. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States; named for senator John E. Kenna.
5. A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, masculine equivalent Kenneth.

Anagrams

• Kenan, naken