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The CHAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 686 31817 0 2
United States (1880 census) 27 65542 0 1
Change since 1880 +659 +33725 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 76 18126 0 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 150 17865 0.000 4
Texas 47 29833 0.000 2
New York 44 43849 0.000 2
Washington 43 18051 0.001 7
Florida 40 40805 0.000 3
Top States for CHAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 8 14301 0.001 13
Rhode Island 13 11873 0.001 12
Washington 43 18051 0.001 7
Nevada 9 27020 0.000 5
California 150 17865 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of CHAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CHAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of CHAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 324 47.23
White (Hispanic) 205 29.88
White (Caucasian) 124 18.08
Mixed Race 27 3.94
Black/African American 6 0.87
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

CHAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CHAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHAY.

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 CHAY

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