The CHANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	32,433	979	0.012	120
United States (1880 census)	5,050	1209	0.01	101
Change since 1880	+27383	+230	+0.002	+19
Other Countries
Australia	147	10044	0.001	9
United Kingdom	961	5425	0.002	21

Top States for CHANEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,951	945	0.014	142
Ohio	2,856	449	0.025	252
California	2,256	1574	0.007	67
Florida	1,702	1309	0.011	106
Maryland	1,459	388	0.028	275
Top States for CHANEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	1,368	474	0.034	338
Alabama	1,362	593	0.031	306
Maryland	1,459	388	0.028	275
Oklahoma	901	541	0.026	261
Louisiana	1,157	603	0.026	259

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

Classification and Origin of CHANEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	506	1.56
White (Hispanic)	435	1.34
Native American/Alaskan	263	0.81
Asian/Pacific	123	0.38
White (Caucasian)	23,864	73.58
Black/African American	7,246	22.34

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

Similar names to CHANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHANEY.

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.