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Boy's name · #296 in the US (2025) · Trending
Kohen is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1996, it stood at #296 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 8,400 boys have been named Kohen along the way.
Kohen rose alongside Cohen after The O.C. introduced Seth Cohen and the Cohen family in 2003. US births of Kohen increased from 17 that year to 113 in 2005.
In recent years, Kohen ran about 6× its national rate in West Virginia—where it ranked #62 in 2025.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 36 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#441 in Scotland (2025) · #472 in Canada (2025) · #896 in England & Wales (2025) · #404 in N. Ireland (2024) · #470 in New Zealand (2023) · #7,298 in Ecuador (2018).
Together with its spelling variant Cohen (#225), Kohen would rank around #131 with about 2,700 births last year — the newborns split about 58/42 between Cohen and Kohen.
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