Cohan
Cohan was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,275 among boys’ names; 360 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cohan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cohan?
#4,275 among boys’ names, 2025
Cohan rose from #7,584 in 2015 to #4,275 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 14.1 per million.
31 babies in 2023, the peak
Cohan peaked in 2023, when 31 boys were given it, #3,640 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,275 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,813 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,640 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,111 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,516 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,361 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,605 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,822 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,379 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,422 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,584 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,908 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,998 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,649 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,465 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,409 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,600 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,810 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,961 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,159 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,323 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,192 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,192 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cohan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cohan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cohan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cohan, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Cohan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 238 people named Cohan (6 women and girls, 232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 216 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,034 babies since 1880, Cohan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 3,087 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cohan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cohan and names like it
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