Cohen
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births · #225 for boys in 2025, 1,590 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,590 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 23,040since 1912
Cohen over time
Rank among boys' names. Cohen has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 | #225 | 1,590 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #239 | 1,479 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 | #247 | 1,413 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | #277 | 1,252 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #287 | 1,201 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #286 | 1,183 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #299 | 1,135 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #305 | 1,125 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #314 | 1,101 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #321 | 1,089 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #336 | 1,020 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #342 | 969 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #369 | 840 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #335 | 938 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | #337 | 897 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #360 | 835 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #326 | 984 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #356 | 880 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #391 | 774 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #414 | 692 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #432 | 618 |
| 2004 | — | #652 | 315 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,451 | 90 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,647 | 72 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,086 | 50 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,895 | 55 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,824 | 54 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,094 | 44 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,546 | 31 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,107 | 23 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,052 | 15 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,290 | 14 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,338 | 19 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,636 | 16 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,705 | 13 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,435 | 12 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,804 | 10 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cohen! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cohen is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#131 · 1 in 456
- Nebraska#157 · 1 in 574
- New Hampshire#171 · 1 in 754
- Idaho#184 · 1 in 657
- Ohio#192 · 1 in 991
Best ever in a state: #48 in West Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #131 | 52 | 1 in 456 |
| Nebraska | #157 | 18 | 1 in 574 |
| New Hampshire | #171 | 7 | 1 in 754 |
| Idaho | #184 | 14 | 1 in 657 |
| Ohio | #192 | 65 | 1 in 991 |
| Louisiana | #193 | 28 | 1 in 898 |
| Indiana | #204 | 41 | 1 in 934 |
| Iowa | #212 | 18 | 1 in 915 |
| Alabama | #217 | 22 | 1 in 1,141 |
| Washington | #225 | 37 | 1 in 1,007 |
| Mississippi | #228 | 14 | 1 in 1,124 |
| Oregon | #235 | 22 | 1 in 915 |
| Georgia | #247 | 49 | 1 in 1,249 |
| West Virginia | #263 | 6 | 1 in 1,444 |
| South Carolina | #272 | 17 | 1 in 1,353 |
| Minnesota | #295 | 19 | 1 in 1,570 |
| Wisconsin | #296 | 18 | 1 in 1,631 |
| Missouri | #300 | 21 | 1 in 1,644 |
| Michigan | #311 | 28 | 1 in 1,836 |
| Kansas | #326 | 11 | 1 in 1,538 |
| North Carolina | #326 | 31 | 1 in 1,797 |
| Tennessee | #327 | 21 | 1 in 1,796 |
| Pennsylvania | #352 | 27 | 1 in 2,365 |
| Virginia | #353 | 20 | 1 in 2,149 |
| Arkansas | #363 | 8 | 1 in 1,901 |
| Oklahoma | #365 | 12 | 1 in 1,786 |
| Nevada | #376 | 7 | 1 in 2,157 |
| Kentucky | #389 | 9 | 1 in 2,625 |
| Colorado | #416 | 13 | 1 in 2,283 |
| Illinois | #418 | 29 | 1 in 2,578 |
| Texas | #424 | 68 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Florida | #464 | 33 | 1 in 3,046 |
| Maryland | #494 | 9 | 1 in 3,323 |
| Arizona | #520 | 12 | 1 in 3,617 |
| California | #732 | 34 | 1 in 7,476 |
| New York | #1,033 | 11 | 1 in 9,920 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cohen
- 14 spots since 2024 (#239 → #225)
- 61 spots since 2020 (#286 → #225)
- 111 spots since 2015 (#336 → #225)
- Biggest jump: 799 spots in 2004 (#1,451 → #652)
- Biggest drop: 34 spots in 2010 (#326 → #360)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2025 at #225 (1,590 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2004–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,074 boys born in 2025 were named Cohen (0.09%)
- 43.2% of all boys named Cohen (9,949) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 35 | #2,496 (1913) | #2,875 |
| 1920s | 61 | #2,347 (1922) | #3,189 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,480 (1939) | #3,622 |
| 1940s | 22 | #2,743 (1945) | #3,410 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,968 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,033 (1962) | #4,033 |
| 1970s | 14 | #4,403 (1979) | #4,731 |
| 1980s | 40 | #3,705 (1988) | #5,128 |
| 1990s | 246 | #1,824 (1999) | #3,313 |
| 2000s | 4,530 | #326 (2009) | #965 |
| 2010s | 9,949 | #299 (2019) | #332 |
| 2020s | 8,118 | #225 (2025) | #260 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cohen in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 378,188 of them was named Cohen, which outranked 14.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 2,318 of them was named Cohen, which outranked 97.6% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.