Köhne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from the same short-form name base, showing ö/oe variation and apocope of -e
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/køːnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Köhne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 345Kas Koehne
- SISlovenia1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Köhne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kohne in ZA South Africa, DZ Algeria, BZ Belize and 1 more and Koehne in US United States, HK Hong Kong.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymic from the same short-form name base, showing ö/oe variation and apocope of -e. Bearers: 1680.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Köhne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Köhne | 74 |
| US United States | 963as Koehne | 1 in 345K | 963 | Koehne | 183 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Kohne | 19 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Kohne | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 111 | 1 in 19K | 111 | — | 1 |
| CU Cuba | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Kohne | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Koehne | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Kohne | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-1 register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Köhne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, aus dem Rufnamen ahd. kuoni / altsächs. kōni 'kühn'; patronymische Bildung
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Aus germ. *kōni- / mnd. kone „kühn“; auch patronymisch möglich. Die Karte zeigt die Vokalvarianten Köhne/Köhn/Kohne/Kohn sowie o-Senkung vor Nasal (Kuon > Kohn).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Apokope-Form zu Köhn; die Karte zeigt ö-/o-Varianten und Endungsabfall. Bearer counts: Köhne 1680, Köhn 3550, Kohne 281, Kohn 2667.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Nachname zum Rufnamen/Kurznamen mit Apokope; Karte zeigt die Vokalvariation Kö-/Ko-.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Apokope; plate shows loss of final vowel in Köhne ~ Köhn/Kohne/Kohn.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Köhneb. 1883DEGerman politician
- Ida Köhneb. 1907DEGerman painter (1907-2005)
- Liselotte Orgel-Köhneb. 1918DEGerman photographer (1918–2002)
- Manfred Köhneb. 1939DEGerman professor (1939-2014)
- Rolf Köhneb. 1951DEGerman politician (1951–2016)
- Irene Köhneb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Sabine Köhneb. 1959DEGerman television presenter and journalist
- Gregor Köhneb. 1960DEGerman writer
- Matthias Köhneb. 1966DEGerman politician
- Julia Barbara Köhneb. 1974scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Köhne come from?
- Patronymic from the same short-form name base, showing ö/oe variation and apocope of -e. Bearers: 1680. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Köhne?
- A machine transcription gives /køːnə/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Köhne mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymic from the same short-form name base, showing ö/oe variation and apocope of -e.
- In which country does Köhne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Köhne in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled köhne.
- Where is Köhne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Köhne is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Köhne?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 111 people named Köhne, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B6hneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Köhne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.