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The CHAPLIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,063 5282 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,565 3698 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +4498 -1584 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 1,285 1283 0.008 79
United Kingdom 5,566 1121 0.012 121
Top States for CHAPLIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 668 993 0.017 167
Florida 450 4605 0.003 28
New York 373 5306 0.002 20
California 368 7554 0.001 11
Illinois 319 4155 0.003 26
Top States for CHAPLIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 668 993 0.017 167
Vermont 61 1772 0.010 100
Maine 123 1896 0.010 96
Iowa 176 2229 0.006 60
New Hampshire 58 3136 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of CHAPLIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 107 1.76
Mixed Race 86 1.42
Asian/Pacific 25 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.28
White (Caucasian) 4,641 76.55
Black/African American 1,187 19.58

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

Meaning of CHAPLIN in historical publications

CHAPLIN. A chaplain; a priest who did the duty of a chapel. Latin cajycllamis. See under ' Ecclesiastical Surnames,' in this Dictionary. A11)ert Chapelain, a Domesd. tenant in chief, was the king's chaplain. "The word capellanus may likewise be interpreted both secretary and chancellor, for these officers were in early times one and the same, being always an ecclesiastic, and one who had the care of the king's chapel." Spelman. Kelham. Other Chaplains occur in Domesd. In the H.R. the name is found under the forms of Capellanus, Chapelein, &c. ; we also find Capelyn, now Capelin.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CHAPLIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAPLIN.

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 CHAPLIN

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