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The CHANCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,586 2441 0.005 50
United States (1880 census) 2,607 2338 0.005 52
Change since 1880 +10979 -103 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 184 8155 0.001 11
United Kingdom 1,958 3014 0.004 43
Top States for CHANCE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,805 1399 0.009 87
Georgia 993 1100 0.012 121
Florida 972 2153 0.006 61
California 843 3636 0.002 25
North Carolina 838 1509 0.010 104
Top States for CHANCE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 623 1211 0.014 140
Georgia 993 1100 0.012 121
Delaware 95 1510 0.012 121
Kansas 297 1013 0.011 110
North Carolina 838 1509 0.010 104

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

Classification and Origin of CHANCE

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 CHANCE 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 CHANCE 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 CHANCE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 258 1.9
White (Hispanic) 227 1.67
Native American/Alaskan 175 1.29
Asian/Pacific 90 0.66
White (Caucasian) 10,531 77.51
Black/African American 2,306 16.97

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

Meaning of CHANCE in historical publications

CHANCE. Originally Chance. The same as Chancey.

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 CHANCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHANCE.

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 CHANCE

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