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The CHAPPELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 23,001 1419 0.009 85
United States (1880 census) 4,475 1391 0.009 89
Change since 1880 +18526 -28 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 1,308 1254 0.008 80
United Kingdom 7,752 799 0.017 169
Top States for CHAPPELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,790 686 0.022 222
California 1,775 1899 0.005 52
Texas 1,733 1488 0.008 83
Alabama 1,336 585 0.030 300
Virginia 1,257 724 0.018 178
Top States for CHAPPELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,336 585 0.030 300
South Carolina 1,127 599 0.028 281
North Carolina 1,790 686 0.022 222
Virginia 1,257 724 0.018 178
Utah 382 821 0.017 171

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

Classification and Origin of CHAPPELL

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 CHAPPELL 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 CHAPPELL 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 CHAPPELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 322 1.4
White (Hispanic) 285 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 117 0.51
Asian/Pacific 62 0.27
White (Caucasian) 17,980 78.17
Black/African American 4,232 18.4

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

Meaning of CHAPPELL in historical publications

CHAPPELL. CHAPPLE. See Chapel.

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 CHAPPELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAPPELL.

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 CHAPPELL

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