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The CHAMBERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 90,325 305 0.033 335
United States (1880 census) 21,667 236 0.043 433
Change since 1880 +68658 -69 -0.01 -98
Other Countries
Australia 4,013 372 0.025 245
United Kingdom 24,817 209 0.054 540
Top States for CHAMBERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 7,243 344 0.035 347
California 6,329 504 0.019 187
Florida 5,158 340 0.032 323
Georgia 4,943 186 0.060 604
North Carolina 4,237 243 0.053 526
Top States for CHAMBERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 3,207 197 0.072 721
Tennessee 3,974 204 0.070 699
Delaware 507 203 0.065 647
Georgia 4,943 186 0.060 604
West Virginia 1,078 221 0.060 596

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

Classification and Origin of CHAMBERS

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 CHAMBERS 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 CHAMBERS 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 CHAMBERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 506 0.56
Asian/Pacific 325 0.36
White (Caucasian) 62,144 68.8
Black/African American 24,325 26.93
Mixed Race 1,608 1.78
White (Hispanic) 1,418 1.57

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

Meaning of CHAMBERS in historical publications

CHAMBERS. Sec Chambre de la,

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 CHAMBERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAMBERS.

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 CHAMBERS

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