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The CHEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,516 3831 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 1,932 3061 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +6584 -770 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 867 1895 0.005 53
United Kingdom 1,716 3351 0.004 37
Top States for CHEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,636 1285 0.008 78
New York 532 3763 0.003 28
New Jersey 516 1852 0.006 61
Texas 452 4802 0.002 22
Maryland 402 1596 0.008 76
Top States for CHEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,636 1285 0.008 78
Maryland 402 1596 0.008 76
Washington DC 39 1590 0.007 68
Hawaii 79 1370 0.007 65
New Jersey 516 1852 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of CHEW

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 CHEW 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 CHEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 266 3.12
White (Hispanic) 234 2.75
Native American/Alaskan 45 0.53
Asian/Pacific 3,403 39.96
White (Caucasian) 3,357 39.42
Black/African American 1,211 14.22

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

Meaning of CHEW in historical publications

CHEW. A parish of Somerset. Cheux, a village near Caen in Normandy.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CHEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHEW.

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 CHEW

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