Kohen

Kohen comes from the Hebrew kohen, the word for priest and the hereditary title of the descendants of Aaron who served in the ancient Temple. As a first name it is a modern development, one that has raised some eyebrows for repurposing a sacred designation as a given name. The sound is contemporary, riding the same wave as Cohen, Rowan, and Nolan, and American parents have steadily adopted it into the low 300s. Two clean syllables, the k crisp, the n soft. Kohen reads modern and slightly mysterious, a name drawn from ancient ritual and fully new.