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Cohen

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈkoʊən//

A surname from Hebrew. The most popular Jewish surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Hebrew. The most popular Jewish surname.

    In a statement on its website, Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen defended the designation.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

Etymology

From Hebrew כֹּהֵן (kohén, “cohen”).

Forms

plural
Cohens
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).