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Position:Home>Genealogy> Are Kuhn, Kohn, Kuhne, Kuehne, cohen, etc all the same last names?????????Question: Are Kuhn, Kohn, Kuhne, Kuehne, cohen, etc all the same last names?????????are all these last names the same family except just for spelling variations????????? like i mean are all these last names the same but they have just been spelled differntly overtime and devariants of each other like for ex. Di Vino is to DiVino. or Kowalsky is to kowalsky Additional Details 3 days ago Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 3 days ago basicaly what i am trying to say is are these family names bascialy the same but just got changed up and different variations of them overtime in history Basically yes they are the same but it depends on which part of Europe you come from as to the spelling I know Cohn, Kohn & Cohen are variations of each other. Not sure about the others. Yes it happens, I have half a dozen different spellings of my own surname, Some times people can miss hear or miss understand due to a persons accent, or not that long ago most people could not read and write so names were spelt how they sounded, and we can lose whole family's from our tree's because of it. Go to rootsweb.com and stick in any of those names and see if they show other spellings of it. Or go to some other geneological site and do the same. That should tell you better than us guessing. This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about all the names you listed. Kuhn German: from the personal name Kuno, a short form of Kunrat (see Konrad). The German word kühn, meaning ‘bold’, may have influenced the popularity of this short form, but is not necessarily the immediate source of it. German: variant spelling of Kühn(e) (see Kuehn). Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German kühn ‘bold’, but in some cases an altered spelling of Cohn or Kohn (see Cohen). Kohn Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Cohen. North German (also K?hn): from the personal name Kohn or K?hn, former Low German short forms of Konrad. Kuhne German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kuhn. Kuehne German: variant of Kuehn. Cohen Jewish: from Hebrew kohen ‘priest’. Priests are traditionally regarded as members of a hereditary caste descended from Aaron, brother of Moses. See also Kaplan. Hope this helps. They're spelling variants of the same phonetic name. But they came from different parts of Central and Eastern Europe. They aren't all from one master family. Instead, they developed much as Strong, Short and Huntzinger did...they were adjectives that described characteristics about the person using the name. |