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The CHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 393 50055 0 1
United States (1880 census) 7 94598 0 0
Change since 1880 +386 +44543 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 27 40998 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 136 25020 0.000 4
Washington 47 21714 0.001 8
Massachusetts 30 34773 0.000 5
Illinois 17 92250 0.000 1
Iowa 17 28630 0.001 6
Top States for CHEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 47 21714 0.001 8
Iowa 17 28630 0.001 6
Massachusetts 30 34773 0.000 5
California 136 25020 0.000 4
Rhode Island 3 36720 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of CHEY

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

Ethnic distribution of CHEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 318 80.92
Mixed Race 35 8.91
White (Caucasian) 23 5.85
White (Hispanic) 8 2.04
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of CHEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHEY.

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 CHEY

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