McKeever is a Scottish and Irish surname.
The name is derived from the Gaelic Mac Íomhair, meaning "‘son of Íomhar".
The Gaelic personal name Íomhar is a form of the Old Norse personal name Ivarr.
[1] Similar surnames or variants are McIver, MacIver, McIvor and MacIvor.
[2] [3] Native Gaelic surnames Mac Éibhir and Mac Éimhir also exist, and Flann Ó Riain, in his "What's That" column in The Irish Times, states that some Mac Íomhairs may originally have been Mac Éibhir.