Kahn Family History
Kahn Name Meaning
North German: occupational name for a bargee, from Low German
kane ‘boat’.German: from a short form of the Germanic
personal name Cagano, itself a short form of a personal name
formed with gagan, gegen ‘against’.Jewish
(Ashkenazic): one of the many variants of Cohen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kahn Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kahn families
 391 - 779  131 - 390 |
 1 - 130  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kahn families
|
35 - 68 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Kahn last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kahn Family Origin
Kahn Immigration Information
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Kahn Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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