Surname statistics for Kahn

There are approximately 2,280 people named Kahn in the UK. That makes it the 4,064th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 36 are named Kahn.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)22804064N/A36
United Kingdom (1881 census)7024796less than 0.0012
Change since 1881+2210+20732+34
Other Countries
United States145702284N/A54
Australia9614711N/A6

Top male forenames

David Kahn
Jonathan Kahn
Alexander Kahn
Peter Kahn
Richard Kahn
Mordechai Kahn
Neville Kahn
Mohammed Kahn
James Kahn
Robert Kahn

Top female forenames

Alison Kahn
Sarah Kahn
Selma Kahn
Paula Kahn
Nicole Kahn
Michelle Kahn
Leah Kahn
Isabella Kahn
Deborah Kahn
Susan Kahn

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.