The CHESNUT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,357	8956	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,116	4982	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+2241	-3974	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	1	279814	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for CHESNUT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	287	9361	0.001	8
Texas	249	7643	0.001	12
Florida	246	7948	0.002	15
Kentucky	184	2788	0.005	46
Missouri	174	4307	0.003	31
Top States for CHESNUT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	184	2788	0.005	46
Iowa	116	3713	0.004	40
Utah	87	3241	0.004	39
Idaho	48	3873	0.004	37
Alabama	157	3667	0.004	35

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

Classification and Origin of CHESNUT

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

Ethnic distribution of CHESNUT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	80	2.38
White (Hispanic)	53	1.58
Mixed Race	34	1.01
Asian/Pacific	10	0.3
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.27
White (Caucasian)	3,171	94.46

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

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

Similar names to CHESNUT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHESNUT.

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.