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The CHILTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,096 5257 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,379 4134 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +4717 -1123 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 373 4248 0.002 23
United Kingdom 3,445 1815 0.008 75
Top States for CHILTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 702 1702 0.009 87
Texas 499 4302 0.002 24
California 496 5714 0.001 15
Missouri 411 1767 0.007 73
Kentucky 314 1796 0.008 78
Top States for CHILTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 702 1702 0.009 87
Kentucky 314 1796 0.008 78
Missouri 411 1767 0.007 73
Tennessee 265 2968 0.005 47
Alaska 27 3391 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of CHILTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 441 7.23
White (Hispanic) 99 1.62
Mixed Race 88 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 65 1.07
Asian/Pacific 24 0.39
White (Caucasian) 5,379 88.24

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

Meaning of CHILTON in historical publications

(origin: Local) From a town of the same name in Wiltshire, England, signifying the chalk-hills; from the Saxon cylt, clay or chalk.

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


CHILTON. Parishes in cos. Berks, Bucks, Somerset, Suffolk, Durham, Wilts, &c.

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 CHILTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHILTON.

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 CHILTON

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