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The CHESTERMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 383 51119 0 1
United States (1880 census) 97 32146 0 2
Change since 1880 +286 -18973 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 134 11005 0.001 8
United Kingdom 784 6352 0.002 17
Top States for CHESTERMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 86 23720 0.000 3
Washington 41 15442 0.001 7
Indiana 31 17576 0.001 5
Nebraska 29 8347 0.002 17
Iowa 28 13933 0.001 10
Top States for CHESTERMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 29 8347 0.002 17
Iowa 28 13933 0.001 10
Washington 41 15442 0.001 7
Kansas 16 16453 0.001 6
Indiana 31 17576 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of CHESTERMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 380 99.22
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CHESTERMAN in historical publications

CHESTERMAN. L A native of Chester, just as we say a Cornishman, a Kentishman. 2. Many places where Roman and other military "stations (casfra) existed are called chesters, and residence at such a spot may have conferred the surname.

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 CHESTERMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHESTERMAN.

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 CHESTERMAN

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