The CHESSER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,557	5719	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	620	8127	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+4937	+2408	+0.001	+9
Other Countries
Australia	74	18508	0	5
United Kingdom	162	18627	0	4

Top States for CHESSER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	810	755	0.020	200
Florida	673	3127	0.004	42
Texas	582	3914	0.003	28
Alabama	399	1795	0.009	90
Ohio	397	3605	0.003	35
Top States for CHESSER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	810	755	0.020	200
Alabama	399	1795	0.009	90
Oklahoma	251	1915	0.007	73
Arkansas	153	2353	0.006	57
Georgia	386	2548	0.005	47

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

Classification and Origin of CHESSER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CHESSER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CHESSER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	154	2.77
White (Hispanic)	80	1.44
Mixed Race	64	1.15
Native American/Alaskan	30	0.54
Asian/Pacific	13	0.23
White (Caucasian)	5,216	93.86

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

Similar names to CHESSER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHESSER.

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.