The CHALMERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,817	5496	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,335	4264	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+4482	-1232	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	2,048	789	0.013	125
United Kingdom	7,430	828	0.016	162

Top States for CHALMERS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	524	5217	0.002	15
Texas	440	4626	0.002	21
Florida	359	5327	0.002	22
Pennsylvania	330	4439	0.003	27
North Carolina	290	3399	0.004	36
Top States for CHALMERS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	82	2499	0.006	64
Delaware	45	2953	0.006	57
Vermont	32	2957	0.005	53
New Hampshire	59	2943	0.005	48
Massachusetts	286	2926	0.005	45

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

Classification and Origin of CHALMERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHALMERS 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 CHALMERS 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 CHALMERS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	92	1.58
Mixed Race	91	1.56
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.46
Asian/Pacific	24	0.41
White (Caucasian)	4,238	72.86
Black/African American	1,345	23.12

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

Similar names to CHALMERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHALMERS.

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.