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The CHARTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,210 20413 0 4
United States (1880 census) 509 9538 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +701 -10875 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 185 8074 0.001 11
United Kingdom 449 9566 0.001 10
Top States for CHARTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 185 13933 0.001 5
Michigan 101 13012 0.001 10
New York 99 19446 0.001 5
Massachusetts 69 11667 0.001 11
Texas 69 21127 0.000 3
Top States for CHARTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 15 10187 0.002 17
New Hampshire 19 8148 0.002 15
Iowa 44 10802 0.002 15
Nebraska 24 11424 0.001 14
Connecticut 45 10711 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of CHARTER

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 CHARTER 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 CHARTER 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 CHARTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 81 6.69
White (Hispanic) 25 2.07
Mixed Race 24 1.98
White (Caucasian) 1,070 88.43
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CHARTER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CHARTER.

Similar names to CHARTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHARTER.

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 CHARTER

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