Meaning not yet researched.
Cohen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,590 in 2025. Its best rank was #225 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Cohen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#225 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Cohen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,590 boys in 2025. Peak: #225 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,590 (2025).
In 2025, 1,590 US boys were named Cohen, making it the 225th most common boys’ name of the year, up 14 places from #239 in 2024. That is 111 more than the 1,479 boys named Cohen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #225, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,590. For comparison, it was #336 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cohen in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 23,429 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 10,103 babies named Cohen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,568 US boys were named Cohen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,590. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,074 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cohen ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #49 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kohen (8,561 babies since 1880), Koen (5,190 babies since 1880) and Coen (4,523 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Con, Cohan and Kohan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Con (389), Cohan (360), Kohan (189), Conn (119), Kohyn (105), Coehn (29), Cohyn (17), Kohin (5), Kohenn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cohen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 30 | #49 | #231 |
| Arkansas | 38 | #82 | #249 |
| Alabama | 55 | #95 | #187 |
| Oklahoma | 45 | #98 | #313 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #99 | — |
| Iowa | 37 | #101 | #186 |
| Louisiana | 49 | #102 | #110 |
| South Carolina | 51 | #103 | #235 |
| Vermont | 5 | #108 | — |
| South Dakota | 12 | #110 | #257 |
| Kentucky | 50 | #112 | #201 |
| New Hampshire | 13 | #113 | #228 |
| Alaska | 7 | #115 | — |
| Mississippi | 27 | #119 | #253 |
| Utah | 40 | #128 | #119 |
| Montana | 10 | #133 | — |
| Ohio | 99 | #139 | #215 |
| Maine | 9 | #141 | #195 |
| Kansas | 26 | #144 | #212 |
| Indiana | 56 | #147 | #166 |
| Tennessee | 63 | #152 | #277 |
| Idaho | 18 | #153 | #224 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #156 | #150 |
| Georgia | 79 | #158 | #239 |
| Missouri | 43 | #163 | #229 |
| North Carolina | 71 | #179 | #273 |
| Nebraska | 14 | #185 | #168 |
| Minnesota | 32 | #203 | #271 |
| Wisconsin | 29 | #212 | #380 |
| Oregon | 18 | #234 | #229 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #243 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | #244 | #393 |
| Texas | 156 | #251 | #419 |
| Michigan | 36 | #278 | #426 |
| Virginia | 30 | #283 | #362 |
| Illinois | 37 | #292 | #415 |
| Florida | 65 | #296 | #578 |
| Colorado | 21 | #310 | #523 |
| Washington | 23 | #326 | #321 |
| Arizona | 21 | #362 | #463 |
| Maryland | 12 | #416 | #426 |
| California | 50 | #593 | #682 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #714 | #739 |
| New York | 20 | #720 | #1,083 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #941 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,920 | 1,590 | #225 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,185 | 1,479 | #239 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,852 | 1,413 | #247 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,230 | 1,252 | #277 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,750 | 1,201 | #287 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,047 | 1,183 | #286 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,464 | 1,135 | #299 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,073 | 1,125 | #305 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,874 | 1,101 | #314 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,975 | 1,089 | #321 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,074 | 1,020 | #336 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,390 | 969 | #342 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,156 | 840 | #369 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,471 | 938 | #336 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,874 | 897 | #337 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,400 | 835 | #360 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,672 | 984 | #326 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,145 | 880 | #356 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,240 | 774 | #391 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,555 | 692 | #414 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,305 | 618 | #432 |
| 2004 | — | — | 315 | #652 |
| 2003 | — | — | 90 | #1,453 |
| 2002 | — | — | 72 | #1,649 |
| 2001 | — | — | 50 | #2,089 |
| 2000 | — | — | 55 | #1,898 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,827 |
| 1998 | — | — | 44 | #2,102 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,557 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,125 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,088 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,336 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,261 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,356 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,670 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,051 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,724 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,742 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,705 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,582 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,456 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,481 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,172 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,153 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,090 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,039 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,783 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,776 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,793 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,635 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,582 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,871 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,264 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,184 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,463 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,352 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,365 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,841 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,265 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,917 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,812 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,776 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,550 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,622 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).