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The CHA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,698 4258 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 18 75530 0 0
Change since 1880 +7680 +71272 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 55 23426 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,781 1414 0.008 82
New York 555 4199 0.003 29
New Jersey 440 2582 0.005 52
Oregon 345 1476 0.010 101
Illinois 310 5078 0.002 25
Top States for CHA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oregon 345 1476 0.010 101
California 2,781 1414 0.008 82
New Jersey 440 2582 0.005 52
Maryland 276 2673 0.005 52
Minnesota 254 3137 0.005 52

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

Classification and Origin of CHA

Region of origin: Asia

Language of origin: Arabic

Religious origin: Muslim

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 193 2.51
White (Caucasian) 189 2.46
White (Hispanic) 109 1.42
Black/African American 28 0.36
Asian/Pacific 7,174 93.19
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.06

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

Meaning of CHA in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHA.

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 CHA

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