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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#221 · 1 in 710
- Louisiana#231 · 1 in 944
- Utah#290 · 1 in 1,181
- Indiana#389 · 1 in 2,008
- Kansas#421 · 1 in 1,979
Best ever in a state: #58 in West Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Dakota | #221 | 6 | 1 in 710 |
| Louisiana | #231 | 27 | 1 in 944 |
| Utah | #290 | 18 | 1 in 1,181 |
| Indiana | #389 | 18 | 1 in 2,008 |
| Kansas | #421 | 8 | 1 in 1,979 |
| Ohio | #423 | 25 | 1 in 2,412 |
| Nebraska | #432 | 5 | 1 in 2,021 |
| Washington | #540 | 12 | 1 in 3,065 |
| Georgia | #542 | 17 | 1 in 3,232 |
| Iowa | #562 | 5 | 1 in 3,155 |
| Missouri | #562 | 9 | 1 in 3,511 |
| Alabama | #618 | 6 | 1 in 3,864 |
| Oregon | #634 | 5 | 1 in 3,627 |
| Pennsylvania | #749 | 10 | 1 in 5,983 |
| Minnesota | #783 | 5 | 1 in 5,677 |
| Michigan | #881 | 7 | 1 in 6,824 |
| Illinois | #893 | 9 | 1 in 7,376 |
| Tennessee | #915 | 5 | 1 in 7,308 |
| Texas | #917 | 23 | 1 in 8,177 |
| North Carolina | #986 | 6 | 1 in 8,668 |
| Florida | #1,090 | 10 | 1 in 9,835 |
| California | #1,538 | 11 | 1 in 20,573 |
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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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 357,020 of them was named Kohen, which outranked 14.2% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,711 names at #16,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 6,454 of them was named Kohen, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).