The CHALK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,618	11121	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	616	8158	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+2002	-2963	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	425	3717	0.003	26
United Kingdom	2,518	2432	0.005	55

Top States for CHALK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	268	7336	0.001	13
North Carolina	211	4419	0.003	26
Maryland	188	3303	0.004	35
California	182	14095	0.001	5
Ohio	169	8237	0.001	15
Top States for CHALK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maryland	188	3303	0.004	35
South Carolina	111	4485	0.003	28
Mississippi	77	3986	0.003	27
North Carolina	211	4419	0.003	26
Kentucky	86	5123	0.002	21

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHALK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHALK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHALK in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHALK by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHALK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHALK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CHALK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CHALK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	501	19.14
White (Hispanic)	59	2.25
Mixed Race	34	1.3
Asian/Pacific	10	0.38
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.38
White (Caucasian)	2,004	76.55

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHALK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to CHALK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHALK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.