The story
- Irish · derived fromÓ Sceacháin“descendant of Sceachán”
- English todaySkehan
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Sceacháin (“descendant of Sceachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of sceach (“briar, thornbush”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.