Kohen
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #295 for boys in 2025, 1,143 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,143 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,407since 1996
Kohen over time
Rank among boys' names. Kohen 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 | #6,546 | 17 | #295 | 1,143 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #319 | 1,081 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #380 | 839 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #474 | 650 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #589 | 474 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #641 | 418 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #633 | 426 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #627 | 425 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #668 | 379 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #667 | 386 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #784 | 297 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #915 | 234 |
| 2013 | — | #948 | 210 | |
| 2012 | — | #949 | 212 | |
| 2011 | — | #991 | 196 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #1,068 | 180 |
| 2009 | — | #1,024 | 190 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #1,074 | 174 |
| 2007 | — | #1,237 | 142 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,330 | 123 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,334 | 113 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,024 | 59 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,935 | 9 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
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| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
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| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kohen! It came in at #7,971, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kohen is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#377 · 1 in 1,915
- Idaho#392 · 1 in 1,753
- Louisiana#429 · 1 in 2,087
- Iowa#442 · 1 in 2,637
- Indiana#550 · 1 in 3,739
Best ever in a state: #58 in West Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #377 | 12 | 1 in 1,915 |
| Idaho | #392 | 5 | 1 in 1,753 |
| Louisiana | #429 | 12 | 1 in 2,087 |
| Iowa | #442 | 6 | 1 in 2,637 |
| Indiana | #550 | 10 | 1 in 3,739 |
| Washington | #566 | 10 | 1 in 3,696 |
| Tennessee | #752 | 6 | 1 in 6,054 |
| Michigan | #763 | 8 | 1 in 6,169 |
| Missouri | #807 | 5 | 1 in 6,692 |
| Ohio | #816 | 9 | 1 in 6,961 |
| Pennsylvania | #847 | 8 | 1 in 7,765 |
| Texas | #873 | 23 | 1 in 8,107 |
| North Carolina | #980 | 6 | 1 in 8,973 |
| Georgia | #1,124 | 6 | 1 in 9,837 |
| Florida | #1,634 | 5 | 1 in 19,059 |
| California | #1,715 | 9 | 1 in 26,905 |
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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 Kohen
- 24 spots since 2024 (#319 → #295)
- 346 spots since 2020 (#641 → #295)
- 489 spots since 2015 (#784 → #295)
- Biggest jump: 131 spots in 2015 (#915 → #784)
- Biggest drop: 8 spots in 2020 (#633 → #641)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2025 at #295 (1,143 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,494 boys born in 2025 were named Kohen (0.07%)
- 54.8% of all boys named Kohen (4,605) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 12 | #7,971 (1996) | #8,225 |
| 2000s | 845 | #1,024 (2009) | #3,353 |
| 2010s | 2,945 | #627 (2018) | #825 |
| 2020s | 4,605 | #295 (2025) | #450 |
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.
Kohen in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 10,440 of them was named Kohen, which outranked 93.0% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).