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The KAHN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,570 2284 0.005 54
United States (1880 census) 2,302 2640 0.005 46
Change since 1880 +12268 +356 0 +8
Other Countries
Australia 96 14711 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KAHN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,290 630 0.012 121
California 2,142 1333 0.006 63
Florida 1,441 1255 0.009 90
New Jersey 908 823 0.011 108
Illinois 773 1415 0.006 62
Top States for KAHN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,290 630 0.012 121
New Jersey 908 823 0.011 108
Florida 1,441 1255 0.009 90
Connecticut 293 1261 0.009 86
Massachusetts 533 1488 0.008 84

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

Classification and Origin of KAHN

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of KAHN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 787 5.4
Mixed Race 363 2.49
White (Hispanic) 290 1.99
Black/African American 227 1.56
Native American/Alaskan 61 0.42
White (Caucasian) 12,841 88.13

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

Meaning of KAHN in historical publications

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

Similar names to KAHN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KAHN.

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 KAHN

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