The CHAVES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,055	4602	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	2,349	2588	0.005	47
Change since 1880	+4706	-2014	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	39	30913	0	2
United Kingdom	88	24569	0	2

Top States for CHAVES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,809	599	0.028	285
California	1,023	3826	0.003	30
Florida	833	3225	0.005	52
Texas	422	6101	0.002	20
New Jersey	327	3867	0.004	39
Top States for CHAVES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,809	599	0.028	285
Rhode Island	232	833	0.022	221
New Mexico	198	1168	0.011	109
Connecticut	227	2590	0.007	67
Hawaii	65	2134	0.005	54

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

Classification and Origin of CHAVES

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	259	3.67
Asian/Pacific	118	1.67
Black/African American	73	1.03
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.55
White (Hispanic)	3,840	54.43
White (Caucasian)	2,726	38.64

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

Similar names to CHAVES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAVES.

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.