Kohen

What Kohen means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kohen yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #295 vs #896 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kohen?

US: Rising: up from #784 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1159 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,143 boys got the name (#295 that year). First in the US records in 1996.

How common

• About 1 in 1,494 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 7,770 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (4.55 per 1,000 boys), MS (3.41 per 1,000 boys), LA (2.72 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Kohen is #295 in the US and #896 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.5% of US babies named Kohen were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Cohen1,590 US · 100 E&W
• Cohan24 US · 22 E&W
• Gohan44 US
• Kohan20 US · 8 E&W
• Kahan7 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kohen

Boys

• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Cooper#27Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #77 in 2015, #27 in 2025
• Kamden#717Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1986, with 6 babies
• Rowen#486“rowan tree”^*
• Maddox#209Editor’s note Down from #148 in 2015 to #209 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Brinley#608Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #608 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025
• Teagan#340Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1979, with 6 babies
• Marleigh#975Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #975 vs #2,605 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kohen’s. Rank is US 2025.