The CHESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,846	14755	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	178	21020	0	4
Change since 1880	+1668	+6265	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	6	131506	0	0
United Kingdom	45	26397	0	1

Top States for CHESS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	247	6581	0.002	20
California	187	14097	0.001	6
Ohio	137	10209	0.001	12
New York	121	16436	0.001	6
Illinois	95	14764	0.001	8
Top States for CHESS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	247	6581	0.002	20
Alabama	84	5625	0.002	19
Mississippi	53	5200	0.002	19
Oregon	56	8203	0.002	16
Idaho	16	11096	0.001	12

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

Classification and Origin of CHESS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	492	26.65
Mixed Race	27	1.46
White (Hispanic)	27	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.49
Asian/Pacific	7	0.38
White (Caucasian)	1,284	69.56

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

Similar names to CHESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHESS.

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.