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The COHEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 87,226 320 0.032 323
United States (1880 census) 7,420 814 0.015 148
Change since 1880 +79806 +494 +0.017 +175
Other Countries
Australia 2,577 613 0.016 158
United Kingdom 6,670 948 0.015 145
Top States for COHEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 17,218 34 0.091 907
Florida 11,762 88 0.074 736
California 10,232 241 0.030 302
New Jersey 7,632 39 0.091 907
Pennsylvania 5,206 150 0.042 424
Top States for COHEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 17,218 34 0.091 907
New Jersey 7,632 39 0.091 907
Massachusetts 4,822 79 0.076 759
Florida 11,762 88 0.074 736
Washington DC 405 93 0.071 708

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

Classification and Origin of COHEN

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COHEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of COHEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 366 0.42
Native American/Alaskan 96 0.11
White (Caucasian) 79,053 90.63
Black/African American 4,806 5.51
Mixed Race 1,073 1.23
White (Hispanic) 1,840 2.11

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

Meaning of COHEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to COHEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COHEN.

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 COHEN

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