Is Cahn a Jewish last name?

This is what www.ancestry.com had to say about the name.


Cahn


Jewish: variant of Cohen.


Americanized spelling of North German Kahn.


My other source has much more to say about it.


http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=%26amp;...


hope that helps.

Is Cahn a Jewish last name?
All I know is that Kahn is German. It means jewlery. I hope that helps?
Reply:yes, I think it's similar to Cohen and Kaplan. It definitely has Jewish origins.
Reply:It can be. It can be a variant of Cohen or Americanized version of North German Kahn.





Among Orthodox and Conservative Jews, all you need is a Jewish mother to be considered a Jew, not necessarily a Jewish father.





They state you get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father. If you don't have a Jewish father you belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on your mother's side of the family.





Your name could be O'Malley and you are a Jew if you have a Jewish mother.
Reply:You might be interested in this information about the Jewish priestly blessing and its related symbol, which is sometimes associated with the surname Cahn (and variations)...





Kohanim or Cohanim Hands - Priestly Blessing


http://cemeteries.wordpress.com/2006/11/...
Reply:yes very
Reply:Yes, like "Kahane", it is a form of "Cohen", the Hebrew term for a member of the priestly tribe of Levi that offered animal sacrifices to God in the Temple.





The plural of "cohen" is "cohanim". The cohanim could not marry outside their tribe, and their genetic material was thus preserved intact right up to our own time. Cohanim have been identified in modern-day Ethiopia, with exactly the same DNA as their ancestors thousands of years ago.
Reply:Cahn is both a Jewish and a German name. All depends on your background.





Hope that helped.