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The CHAPEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,235 12692 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 1,326 4292 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +909 -8400 -0.002 -19
Other Countries
Australia 15 64390 0 1
United Kingdom 65 25403 0 1
Top States for CHAPEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 273 9232 0.003 27
California 161 27898 0.000 5
Texas 140 20318 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 131 21679 0.001 11
Indiana 119 11584 0.002 20
Top States for CHAPEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 63 4343 0.007 70
Michigan 273 9232 0.003 27
Colorado 89 11955 0.002 21
Indiana 119 11584 0.002 20
Minnesota 82 19008 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of CHAPEL

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 CHAPEL 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 CHAPEL 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 CHAPEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 346 15.48
White (Hispanic) 90 4.03
Mixed Race 28 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.85
Asian/Pacific 6 0.27
White (Caucasian) 1,746 78.12

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

Meaning of CHAPEL in historical publications


Local. A private oratory; a place of public worship.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


CHAPEL. From residence near one. In the H.R. we find it written Capello, De Capella, Chaple, and Chapel ; and elsewhere De la Chapel and Chapelle.

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 CHAPEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAPEL.

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 CHAPEL

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