How common is the surname Kuhn?

31,776 people in the United States had the surname Kuhn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,716 Americans. It ranked 1,102nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kuhn?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kuhn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Kuhn?

Thomas Kuhn, American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996), followed by Richard Kuhn.

Where is the surname Kuhn most common?

Wikidata records people named Kuhn in the United States, Germany and West Germany and 3 other countries.

Is the surname Kuhn getting more or less common?

More common. 30,342 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,776 in 2010, up 4.7%.

The surname Kuhn

A surname, carried by 31,776 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kuhn is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname, from Kuhn. Compare Kühn, Kuehn. * As a Jewish surname, a variant of Cohen, Kohn.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 31,776 people named Kuhn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,716 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 30,342.

#1,102

rank among US surnames

31,776

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+4.7%

change since 2000 (was #1,053)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,093	Costello	32,043	9,635
#1,094	Gay	32,025	9,641
#1,095	Guthrie	31,956	9,662
#1,096	Gallardo	31,909	9,676
#1,097	Workman	31,856	9,692
#1,098	McFadden	31,839	9,697
#1,099	Blanco	31,800	9,709

Who is named Kuhn

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

95% of people named Kuhn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Kuhns

21 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Thomas Kuhn
American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996)
Richard Kuhn
Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)
Fritz Julius Kuhn
American leader of the German American Bund (1896–1951)
Mickey Kuhn
American actor (1932–2022)
Enrico Kühn
Bobsledder, born 1977
Steve Kuhn
American pianist, born 1938
Kaila Kuhn
American freestyle skier, born 2003
Friedrich Kuhn
Bobsledder (1919–2005)
Harold W. Kuhn
American mathematician (1925–2014)
Walt Kuhn
American painter (1877-1949)
Judy Kuhn
American actress, singer and activist, born 1958
Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld
Austrian General, Minister of War of Austria-Hungary, 1817–1896

Notable Kuhns come mostly from the United States (13), Germany (3) and West Germany (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kuhn

Kuhn has the Soundex code K500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K500.

Questions

Where does the surname Kuhn come from?: * As a German surname, from Kuhn. Compare Kühn, Kuehn. * As a Jewish surname, a variant of Cohen, Kohn.
How common is the surname Kuhn?: 31,776 people in the United States had the surname Kuhn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,716 Americans. It ranked 1,102nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kuhn?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kuhn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Kuhn?: Thomas Kuhn, American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996), followed by Richard Kuhn.
Where is the surname Kuhn most common?: Wikidata records people named Kuhn in the United States, Germany and West Germany and 3 other countries.
Is the surname Kuhn getting more or less common?: More common. 30,342 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,776 in 2010, up 4.7%.