Cohen

86,401 people in America carry this name — ranked #355 of 777.

A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.

Say it KOH uhn

2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

K OW1 AH0 N — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

People counted 86,401 2020 Census
Rank #355 Familiar
Per 100,000 28.9 about 1 in 3,836 people
As a first name 14,451 ranked #1,940 the other way round

Where Cohen comes from and what it means

Hebrew in origin, reading literally as “a bishop or priest”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

Same syllables and stress as Cohen

Ends on the same sound

Owen 58,962

Same rhythm — 2 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

Who has this name today

White alone (non-Hispanic) — 86.1%
Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino origin — 4.7%
Two or more races — 2.2%
Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.9%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

By sound First names that fit Cohen Which names sit well before it, and which rhyme or double up — with the reason for each.

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The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

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Where this page gets its numbers

Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Hebrew origin