Kohen
Kohen was given to 1,143 boys in 2025, #296 among boys’ names; 8,561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,500 Americans named Kohen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kohen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kohen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kohen is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare spelling variant of Cohen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kohen?
#296 among boys’ names, 2025
Kohen rose from #786 in 2015 to #296 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.15 to 0.67 per 1,000.
1,160 babies in 2025, the peak
Kohen peaked in 2025, when 1,160 babies were given it (1,143 boys, #296 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,081 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,143 | #296 | 0.67 |
| 2024 | 1,081 | #319 | 0.63 |
| 2023 | 839 | #380 | 0.49 |
| 2022 | 650 | #474 | 0.37 |
| 2021 | 474 | #589 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 418 | #641 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 426 | #634 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 425 | #627 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 379 | #668 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 386 | #668 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 297 | #786 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 234 | #918 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 210 | #953 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 212 | #954 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 196 | #993 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 180 | #1,077 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 190 | #1,025 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 174 | #1,078 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 142 | #1,239 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,337 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,337 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,037 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,722 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,101 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,234 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,605 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,520 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kohen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,561 Americans recorded as Kohen, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 1,143 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kohen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kohen, and how old are they?
8,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,561 Americans ever recorded as Kohen. The median Kohen alive today is 6 years old; half are between 2 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 3,499 people named Kohen (64 women and girls, 3,435 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,939 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,060 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kohen born?
The states with the most babies named Kohen are Texas, Ohio and Tennessee, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 114 | #329 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 77 | #172 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 59 | #167 | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 52 | #95 | 4.2× |
| Georgia | 52 | #236 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 51 | #167 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 42 | #445 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 42 | #301 | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 41 | #139 | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 41 | #139 | 1.4× |
Where Kohen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kohen is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1996 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kohen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,656 babies since 1880, Kohen is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,160 of their 3,458 babies (34%), again the second most given.
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 Kohen
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 Kohen and names like it
- Compare Kohen and CohenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKohen peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kohen since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kohen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kohen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kohen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.