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Kohen

#296 in 2025Boys' name

Cohen, through Cohen

Kohen has been given to 8,561 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #296 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,143 recorded.

Babies named Kohen, 2025

1 in 2,900

Kohen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kohen: meaning, origin, and history

Cohen, through Cohen

surname transfer

What Kohen means

Kohen belongs to the name family reached through Kohen → Cohen. Its meaning is “cohen”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kohen is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Kohen is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cohen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,407 boys were recorded with the name Kohen between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,143 in 2025; its best national rank was #296 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #641 in 2020 to #296 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #786 in 2015 to #296 in 2025.

In the United States, 154 girls were recorded with the name Kohen between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2021; its best national rank was #6,541 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,201 in 2020 to #6,698 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,904 in 2015 to #6,698 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kohen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,900
1,143 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,490
0.07% of boys
Rank, 2025
#296
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,012 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kohen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1003%
School of 50016%

Put another way: gather 2,012 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kohen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kohens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kohen was born before 2020 — so the typical Kohen is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,407
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (4,605).

Is Kohen 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
+23
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+345
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+490
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.85×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,143)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#296
2025

Spellings of Kohen

Kohen is not the most common spelling — John is, with 89.0% against Kohen's 0.14%.

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.

Where Kohen is used

Across 2016–2025, Kohen was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 493 boys, against 1 in 2,428 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 20,000).

5203 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 493
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 546
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 690
  4. 4Iowa1 in 813
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 971
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 971
  7. 7Alabama1 in 1,087
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 1,099

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Kohen is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 88% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kohen around the world

Where Kohen 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 & Wales
    2006–2025
    #896
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #445
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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.

Kohen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#296
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 345
Best rank ever
#296
2025
Peak year
2025
1,143 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,407
Count in 2025
1,143

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,698
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,503
Best rank ever
#6,541
2021
Peak year
2021
18 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
154
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Kohen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EthenCohenNathenKohlAthenKohanRohenKohynLathenRhenOshenKoheiYichenKohlsonKohltonKohleBohenKohlerKohnerYuchenEathenJonathenZhenKeithen

Names with a curve like Kohen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kohen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AresDarielBriggsBodieSuttonLuccaBaylorKodaZyaireApolloWilderKashton

Sibling names for Kohen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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