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The CH'IEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,239 9257 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 4 102686 0 0
Change since 1880 +3235 +93429 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 130 11292 0.001 8
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CH'IEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,676 1889 0.005 49
New York 319 5982 0.002 17
Texas 201 8789 0.001 10
New Jersey 174 5530 0.002 21
Washington 86 8205 0.001 15
Top States for CH'IEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,676 1889 0.005 49
New Jersey 174 5530 0.002 21
Nevada 40 5683 0.002 20
New York 319 5982 0.002 17
Washington 86 8205 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of CH'IEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CH'IEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of CH'IEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 106 3.27
Mixed Race 73 2.25
White (Hispanic) 15 0.46
Black/African American 12 0.37
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.15
Asian/Pacific 3,028 93.49

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

CH'IEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CH'IEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to CH'IEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CH'IEN.

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 CH'IEN

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