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The CHANCEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,804 8040 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 221 17884 0 4
Change since 1880 +3583 +9844 +N/A +10
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 3 33703 0 0
Top States for CHANCEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 918 2357 0.006 57
Georgia 670 1653 0.008 82
Alabama 354 2033 0.008 80
Texas 319 6423 0.002 15
Tennessee 182 4094 0.003 32
Top States for CHANCEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 670 1653 0.008 82
Alabama 354 2033 0.008 80
Florida 918 2357 0.006 57
West Virginia 81 2818 0.004 45
Tennessee 182 4094 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of CHANCEY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 240 6.31
White (Hispanic) 70 1.84
Mixed Race 49 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.55
Asian/Pacific 15 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,409 89.62

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

Meaning of CHANCEY in historical publications

CHANCEY. Scot, chancy, Fv. chanceux, fortunate, happy. Jamiesou. See however Chauncy.

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 CHANCEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHANCEY.

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 CHANCEY

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