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The CHAPIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,242 3206 0.004 38
United States (1880 census) 4,876 1273 0.01 98
Change since 1880 +5366 -1933 -0.006 -60
Other Countries
Australia 11 80296 0 1
United Kingdom 4 33036 0 0
Top States for CHAPIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 953 3211 0.003 28
Michigan 747 1468 0.008 75
New York 721 2623 0.004 38
Florida 557 3676 0.003 35
Ohio 478 2899 0.004 42
Top States for CHAPIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 111 937 0.018 182
South Dakota 70 1440 0.009 93
Oregon 285 1470 0.008 83
New Hampshire 99 1965 0.008 80
Maine 102 2174 0.008 80

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of CHAPIN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHAPIN 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.

Ethnic distribution of CHAPIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 172 1.68
Mixed Race 87 0.85
Black/African American 86 0.84
Native American/Alaskan 60 0.59
Asian/Pacific 38 0.37
White (Caucasian) 9,799 95.67

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

Meaning of CHAPIN in historical publications


A corruption of Chapman; a trader, a shopman.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to CHAPIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAPIN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CHAPIN

The following words are slight variants of CHAPIN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.