Kuhn

Kuhn is the 1,129th most common surname in the United States, shared by 30,443 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,818.

By the numbers

People: 30,443
Rank: 1,129th
How common: 1 in 9,818
Per 100,000: 10.2

Where the name comes from

As a German surname, from Kuhn. Compare Kühn, Kuehn.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996)American historian, physicist and philosopher
Richard Kuhn (1900–1967)Austrian-German biochemist
Köbi Kuhn (1943–2019)Swiss association football player and manager
Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896–1951)American leader of the German American Bund
Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812–1881)German philologist and folklorist
Nicolas Kühn (born 2000)German association football player
Mickey Kuhn (1932–2022)American actor
Johannes Kühn (born 1991)German biathlete and custom officer

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

Surnames like Kuhn

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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.