Cohan
#4,275 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cohan has been given to 360 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #4,275 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 31 recorded.
Babies named Cohan, 2025
1 in 138,000
Cohan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cohan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 71,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,275
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cohan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cohan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cohans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cohan was born before 2017 — so the typical Cohan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 40.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 360
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (145).
Is Cohan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −462
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,086
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,309
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.40×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 77.4%
- Peak was 2023 (31)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.0% average annual change
Spellings of Cohan
Cohan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 75.0% against Cohan's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Cohan around the world
Where Cohan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#1,276in 2025
- Scotland2009–2025#647in 2025
- Northern Ireland2010–2025#175in 2025
- Canada2005–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia1989–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cohan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cohan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cohan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.