The name Kohen is a modern spelling of Cohen, originally a Hebrew surname. It was derived from the word ‘kohen’ meaning ‘priest’. In the English-speaking world, Cohen is also known as a given name.
Kohen is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Kohen isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Kohen ranks 640. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Kohen. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kohen.
You may not know anyone named Kohen, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to men and boys named Kohen. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Kohen living in one state or another. If your name is Kohen and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Kohen relative to the population, you still have to ask 6,246 men and boys their names before you hear Kohen as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Kohen is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kohen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kohen, you can simply say:
Koala
Orange
Hat
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Kohen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kohen sounds like this:
