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The CHAFFIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,505 3441 0.004 35
United States (1880 census) 1,446 3956 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +8059 +515 +0.001 +6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 107 23402 0 2
Top States for CHAFFIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 968 1443 0.009 85
Texas 811 2949 0.004 39
Tennessee 775 1173 0.014 136
California 724 4199 0.002 21
Georgia 458 2254 0.006 56
Top States for CHAFFIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 775 1173 0.014 136
West Virginia 246 1133 0.014 136
Idaho 166 1078 0.013 128
Oklahoma 430 1127 0.012 125
Kentucky 385 1533 0.010 95

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

Classification and Origin of CHAFFIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 482 5.07
Mixed Race 149 1.57
White (Hispanic) 130 1.37
Native American/Alaskan 63 0.66
Asian/Pacific 47 0.49
White (Caucasian) 8,634 90.84

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

Meaning of CHAFFIN in historical publications

CHAFFIN. See Caffin.

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 CHAFFIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAFFIN.

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 CHAFFIN

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