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How popular is “Cohen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cohen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cohen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cohen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cohen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cohen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cohen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cohen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 -100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 -100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 -100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 -100%
1995 15 0.000004096 15 -100%
1996 23 0.000006306 23 -100%
1997 31 0.00000855 31 -100%
1998 44 0.000011962 44 -100%
1999 54 0.000014619 54 -100%
2000 55 0.000014551 55 -100%
2001 50 0.000013357 50 -100%
2002 72 0.00001926 72 -100%
2003 90 0.00002367 90 -100%
2004 315 0.000082441 315 -100%
2005 628 0.000163336 10 618 -97%
2006 698 0.000176432 6 692 -98%
2007 779 0.000194863 5 774 -99%
2008 885 0.000225153 5 880 -99%
2009 993 0.000259936 9 984 -98%
2010 841 0.000227559 6 835 -99%
2011 908 0.000248237 11 897 -98%
2012 946 0.000258656 8 938 -98%
2013 852 0.000233702 12 840 -97%
2014 985 0.000265758 16 969 -97%
2015 1032 0.00027885 12 1020 -98%
2016 1106 0.000301469 17 1089 -97%
2017 1121 0.000313462 21 1100 -96%
2018 1145 0.000325664 20 1125 -97%
2019 1166 0.000335933 31 1135 -95%
2020 1208 0.000361614 25 1183 -96%
2021 1241 0.000366298 40 1201 -94%
2022 1285 0.000379825 34 1251 -95%
2023 1452 0.000438512 39 1413 -95%
2024 1500 0.000450653 25 1475 -97%

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