Kagan

At the 2020 census, 2,875 Americans bore the surname Kagan — 10,625th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 104,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,875
Rank: 10,625th
How common: 1 in 104,000
Per 100,000: 0.96

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kagan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Kagan

Elena Kagan (born 1960)Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010
Robert Kagan (born 1958)American historian
Donald Kagan (1932–2021)American historian
Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838–1933)Polish rabbi
Rachel Cohen-Kagan (1888–1982)Israeli politician
Jerome Kagan (1929–2021)American psychologist
Helena Kagan (1889–1978)Israeli pediatrician
Oleg Kagan (1946–1990)Russian violinist

People named Kagan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Kagan has been given to 724 American babies as a first name since 1978, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.