Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Kohan isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kohan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 189
- 189 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #4,964 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +72%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,964 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,211 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kohan’s family of names
In German usage, Kohan as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Коган.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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