Cohn
At the 2020 census, 9,175 Americans bore the surname Cohn — 3,770th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 9,175
- Rank
- 3,770th
- How common
- 1 in 32,600
- Per 100,000
- 3.1
Where the name comes from
Origin German
From German Kohn, from Konrad (“Conrad”). Popularized among Jews because of the phonetic similarity with Hebrew כֹּהֵן (“priest”). Compare Cohen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Cohn described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Cohn
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1945)German/French journalist and politician
- Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898)German biologist
- Roy Cohn (1927–1986)American lawyer
- Harry Cohn (1891–1958)American film studio executive
- Mildred Cohn (1913–2009)American biochemist
- Arthur Cohn (1927–2025)Swiss film producer
- Marc Cohn (born 1959)American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician
- Al Cohn (1925–1988)American saxophonist
People named Cohn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Cohn
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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.