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The CAHAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 384 51024 0 1
United States (1880 census) 86 34709 0 2
Change since 1880 +298 -16315 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 6 31971 0 0
Top States for CAHAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 60 17712 0.000 5
California 53 32958 0.000 2
Florida 34 35081 0.000 2
Washington 32 17536 0.001 5
New York 31 45044 0.000 2
Top States for CAHAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 32 17536 0.001 5
Illinois 60 17712 0.000 5
Vermont 2 26355 0.000 3
Oregon 11 27311 0.000 3
Maryland 16 24474 0.000 3

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAHAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAHAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAHAN in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAHAN by picking someone at random in Washington than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAHAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CAHAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of CAHAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 359 93.49
Asian/Pacific 14 3.65
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAHAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CAHAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CAHAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAHAN.

Similar names to CAHAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAHAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAHAN

The following words are slight variants of CAHAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.