The CHENG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	26,023	1238	0.01	96
United States (1880 census)	18	75524	0	0
Change since 1880	+26005	+74286	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	2,516	636	0.015	154
United Kingdom	1,662	3439	0.004	36

Top States for CHENG by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	10,151	275	0.030	300
New York	4,227	337	0.022	223
New Jersey	1,456	508	0.017	173
Texas	1,268	1854	0.006	61
Illinois	817	1501	0.007	66
Top States for CHENG by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	10,151	275	0.030	300
Hawaii	330	216	0.027	272
New York	4,227	337	0.022	223
New Jersey	1,456	508	0.017	173
Maryland	670	858	0.013	126

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

Classification and Origin of CHENG

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHENG 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.

Ethnic distribution of CHENG in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	632	2.43
White (Caucasian)	380	1.46
White (Hispanic)	206	0.79
Black/African American	55	0.21
Asian/Pacific	24,743	95.08
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.03

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

Similar names to CHENG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHENG.

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.