Kohn

9,902 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kohn in the 2020 census, making it the 3,514th most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,200.

By the numbers

People: 9,902
Rank: 3,514th
How common: 1 in 30,200
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

As a Jewish surname, variant of Cohen.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Kohn

Walter Kohn (1923–2016)American physicist
Philipp Köhn (born 1998)Swiss association football player
Hedwig Kohn (1887–1964)German-American physicist
Richard Kohn (1888–1963)association football player
Mike Kohn (born 1972)American bobsledder
Rosemarie Köhn (1939–2022)Norwegian bishop
Hans Kohn (1891–1971)American historian
Derrick Köhn (born 1999)German association football (soccer) player

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

Surnames like Kohn

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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.