The CHEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	105,544	260	0.039	391
United States (1880 census)	115	28692	0	2
Change since 1880	+105429	+28432	+N/A	+389
Other Countries
Australia	6,441	205	0.039	394
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for CHEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	37,394	43	0.110	1,104
New York	19,136	33	0.101	1,008
New Jersey	5,896	67	0.070	701
Texas	5,586	413	0.027	268
Massachusetts	3,907	133	0.062	615
Top States for CHEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	37,394	43	0.110	1,104
New York	19,136	33	0.101	1,008
New Jersey	5,896	67	0.070	701
Massachusetts	3,907	133	0.062	615
Maryland	2,709	148	0.051	511

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

Classification and Origin of CHEN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	517	0.49
Black/African American	380	0.36
Asian/Pacific	100,742	95.45
Native American/Alaskan	21	0.02
Mixed Race	2,111	2
White (Caucasian)	1,773	1.68

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

Similar names to CHEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHEN.

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.