Kahn

Kahn is the 2,473rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,232 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,000.

By the numbers

People: 14,232
Rank: 2,473rd
How common: 1 in 21,000
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

As a north German surname, from Low German Kane (“small boat”), from gml kāne, from Old Saxon *kano, from Proto-West Germanic *kanō, from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“vessel, boat”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 8.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Kahn

Oliver Kahn (born 1969)German association football player
Louis Kahn (1901–1974)Estonian-American architect
Bob Kahn (born 1938)American Internet pioneer, computer scientist
Madeline Kahn (1942–1999)American actress, singer
Herman Kahn (1922–1983)American futurist noted for his views on nature of thermonuclear war
Gustave Kahn (1859–1936)French symbolist poet and art critic
Philippe Kahn (born 1952)French entrepreneur, camera phone inventor
Michael Kahn (born 1930)American film editor

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

Surnames like Kahn

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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.