How common is the last name Cohen?

86,401 people in the United States have the last name Cohen, about 1 in 3,459. It ranks #355 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

COHEN

#355

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
86,401
About
1 in 3,459
This common or more
28.3%
Who bears it

Of the 86,401 people with the last name Cohen, 86.1% reported their origin as White, 5.9% as Black and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Cohen

#353 Rhodes · 86,574#354 Carrillo · 86,513#356 Jennings · 86,271#357 Cabrera · 85,945

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cohen, most common first.

#3,770 Cohn · 9,175#7,114 Cowen · 4,531#7,751 Coen · 4,110#12,861 Cohan · 2,287#127,013 Cohon · 141

Also a first name

As a first name, Cohen ranks #1,940 of 53,615, with 14,451 people. As a baby name it peaked in 2025, with 1,627 births. See Cohen as a first name

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