Kahan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kahan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: priest; Rhodes.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 150K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 156K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
2,133 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
priest; Rhodes
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kahan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,133 | 1 in 156K | 2.5K | Kahan | 307 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Kahan | 73 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Kahan | 17 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 162 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Kahan | 60 |
| IL Israel | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Kahan | 33 |
| FI Finland | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 111K | 10 | — | 2 |
2,133 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Kahan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
one of the many forms of Cohen.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Czech, burner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- William Kahanb. 1933CACanadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)
- Steve Kahanb. 1939USAmerican actor
- Judith Kahanb. 1948USAmerican actress
- Ed Kahanb. 1952ILIsraeli scientist
- Bente Kahanb. 1958NONorwegian musician
- Mendy Cahanb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli specialist in literature
- Richard Kahanb. 1980CACanadian actor
- Noah Kahanb. 1997USAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1997)
- Brittany Kahanfilm producer
- Dan M. KahanUSAmerican law clerk
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,074 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,093 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,000 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 162 | #2,551 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Kahan mean, and where does it come from?
- priest; Rhodes Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Kahan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Kahan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kahan.
- How common is the name Kahan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,133 people named Kahan in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
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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, “Kahan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.