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How popular is the name Cohen?
Births per year, rank history and how many Cohens are alive today.
Cohen (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 404th in 2025 with 100 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2016, when 168 babies were given the name, the 295th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 446 in 2021 before climbing back to the 404th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Cohen is one spelling of a name also recorded as Kohen; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Cohen you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Cohens born in England and Wales are between 6 and 15, and there are at least 2,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Cohen - on average, only one in every 105 such rooms contains a Cohen.
How many babies are named Cohen each year?
Includes all spellings: Cohen, Kohen. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Cohen spelling rank?
Where does the Kohen spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Cohen most popular?
Cohen peaked in 2017, when 200 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Cohen?
At least 2,900 people named Cohen in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Cohen?
Most living Cohens are between 6 and 15; the most common age is about 10.
Is Cohen becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.