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The CHAVEZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 185,865 118 0.069 689
United States (1880 census) 1,836 3224 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +184029 +3106 +0.065 +652
Other Countries
Australia 157 9424 0.001 10
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHAVEZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 62,954 29 0.186 1,859
Texas 33,477 67 0.161 1,605
New Mexico 17,822 3 0.980 9,797
Arizona 9,601 33 0.187 1,871
Colorado 9,128 33 0.212 2,122
Top States for CHAVEZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Mexico 17,822 3 0.980 9,797
Colorado 9,128 33 0.212 2,122
Arizona 9,601 33 0.187 1,871
California 62,954 29 0.186 1,859
Texas 33,477 67 0.161 1,605

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

Classification and Origin of CHAVEZ

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 799 0.43
Black/African American 390 0.21
White (Hispanic) 170,959 91.98
White (Caucasian) 10,501 5.65
Native American/Alaskan 2,137 1.15
Asian/Pacific 1,097 0.59

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

Meaning of CHAVEZ in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CHAVEZ.

Similar names to CHAVEZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAVEZ.

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 CHAVEZ

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