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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.