How common is the surname Kagan?

2,925 people in the United States had the surname Kagan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,554 Americans. It ranked 10,891st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kagan?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kagan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Kagan?

Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010, followed by Robert Kagan.

Where is the surname Kagan most common?

Wikidata records people named Kagan in the United States.

Is the surname Kagan getting more or less common?

More common. 2,918 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,925 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Kagan

A surname, carried by 2,925 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K250

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kagan is more common than 93.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,925 people named Kagan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,554 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,918.

#10,891

rank among US surnames

2,925

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #10,152)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,886	Nova	2,928	105,446
#10,889	Linker	2,927	105,482
#10,890	Divine	2,926	105,518
#10,891	Lesley	2,925	105,554
#10,894	Jelinek	2,924	105,590
#10,897	Honey	2,923	105,626

Who is named Kagan

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Kagan identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Two or more races 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Kagans

8 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Elena Kagan
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010
Robert Kagan
American historian (born 1958)
Donald Kagan
American historian (1932-2021)
Jerome Kagan
American psychologist (1929–2021)
David Kagan
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bismarck, born 1949
Kimberly Kagan
American military historian, born 1972
Jeremy Kagan
American film and television director, screenwriter and television producer, born 1945
Victoria Nuland
American diplomat (born 1961)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kagan

Kagan has the Soundex code K250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K250.

Questions

How common is the surname Kagan?: 2,925 people in the United States had the surname Kagan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,554 Americans. It ranked 10,891st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kagan?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kagan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Kagan?: Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010, followed by Robert Kagan.
Where is the surname Kagan most common?: Wikidata records people named Kagan in the United States.
Is the surname Kagan getting more or less common?: More common. 2,918 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,925 in 2010, up 0.2%.