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The CHERNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,754 15364 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 95 32604 0 2
Change since 1880 +1659 +17240 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 11 80308 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHERNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 451 1349 0.008 84
California 196 12180 0.001 6
Ohio 120 10295 0.001 11
Michigan 115 10306 0.001 12
Illinois 104 12047 0.001 8
Top States for CHERNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 451 1349 0.008 84
North Dakota 23 4664 0.004 36
Montana 20 6791 0.002 22
Minnesota 72 10071 0.001 15
Nevada 25 8462 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 CHERNEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHERNEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHERNEY in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHERNEY by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHERNEY

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

Ethnic distribution of CHERNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 21 1.2
Mixed Race 19 1.08
Black/African American 7 0.4
White (Caucasian) 1,699 96.86
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 CHERNEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of CHERNEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHERNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHERNEY.

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 CHERNEY

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