The CHAI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,615	11132	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	5	99483	0	0
Change since 1880	+2610	+88351	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	281	5509	0.002	17
United Kingdom	130	21187	0	3

Top States for CHAI by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	955	3304	0.003	28
New York	292	6884	0.002	15
New Jersey	146	6888	0.002	17
Hawaii	140	683	0.012	116
Florida	103	17078	0.001	6
Top States for CHAI by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Hawaii	140	683	0.012	116
California	955	3304	0.003	28
New Jersey	146	6888	0.002	17
New York	292	6884	0.002	15
Washington	81	9128	0.001	14

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CHAI

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

Ethnic distribution of CHAI in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	166	6.35
White (Caucasian)	134	5.12
White (Hispanic)	58	2.22
Black/African American	22	0.84
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.31
Asian/Pacific	2,227	85.16

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

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

Similar names to CHAI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAI.

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.