The CHAPMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	124,614	218	0.046	462
United States (1880 census)	34,408	149	0.069	688
Change since 1880	+90206	-69	-0.023	-226
Other Countries
Australia	11,961	85	0.073	732
United Kingdom	52,710	77	0.115	1,148

Top States for CHAPMAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	9,279	329	0.027	274
Texas	9,236	250	0.044	443
Florida	6,938	246	0.043	434
Ohio	6,223	162	0.055	548
Michigan	5,206	155	0.052	524
Top States for CHAPMAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	2,554	54	0.141	1,412
South Carolina	4,396	105	0.110	1,096
Maine	1,269	131	0.100	995
Alabama	3,319	181	0.075	746
Tennessee	3,888	202	0.068	683

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

Classification and Origin of CHAPMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	984	0.79
Asian/Pacific	523	0.42
White (Caucasian)	101,648	81.57
Black/African American	17,583	14.11
Mixed Race	1,907	1.53
White (Hispanic)	1,969	1.58

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

Similar names to CHAPMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAPMAN.

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.