Kohn
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A Jewish surname from Hebrew
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Kohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 18Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 30Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kohn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
230,085 named Can, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Can in TR Türkiye and Koehn in BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Patronymic from the same short-form base; shows o spelling without final -e. Bearers: 2667.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kohn is read
(measured from records)Kohn is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English73%
A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German9.0%
Patronymic from the same short-form base; shows o spelling without final -e. Bearers: 2667.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Familienname; Vokalvariation o/oh in Kurzformen aus Konrad; 2999 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
from Cohen 'priest'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kohn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 230,085as Can | 1 in 356 | 230K | Can | 11 |
| US United States | — | 9,701 | 1 in 34K | 9.9K | Kohn | 384 |
| DE Germany | #410 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Kohn | 144 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 4 | Kohn | 82 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,280 | 1 in 165K | 1.3K | Koehn | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 525as Can | 1 in 16K | 525 | Kohn | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | 392as Can | 1 in 14K | 392 | Kohn | 9 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #216 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Kohn | 1 |
230,085 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kohn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1 . Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Cohen. 2. North German (also Kohn): from the personal name Kohn or Kdhn, former Low German short forms of Konrad.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Salomon Kohnb. 1825CZAustrian writer (1825-1904)
- Hedwig Kohnb. 1887USGerman-American physicist
- Richard Kohnb. 1888ATassociation football player (1888-1963)
- Hans Kohnb. 1891USAmerican historian (1891-1971)
- Stanisław Kohnb. 1895PLPolish chess player
- Walter Kohnb. 1923USAmerican physicist (1923–2016)
- Joseph J. Kohnb. 1932USCzech mathematician and university educator (1932–2023)
- Alfie Kohnb. 1957USAmerican author and lecturer
- Sally Kohnb. 1977USAmerican political pundit (1977-)
- Abby KohnUSAmerican screenwriter for TV and film
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.9K | #3,514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.7K | #3,673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9K | #3,625 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,391 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 81 | #12,967 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #29,028 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kohn come from?
- Patronymic from the same short-form base; shows o spelling without final -e. Bearers: 2667. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- What does the name Kohn mean?
- In English, A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
- In which country does Kohn have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 230 thousand people named Can, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,701 people named Kohn in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Kohn compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Kohn is the 216th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kohnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kohn” — the 216th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.