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The CHI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,735 5561 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 29 64376 0 1
Change since 1880 +5706 +58815 +N/A +20
Other Countries
Australia 197 7658 0.001 12
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CHI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,197 1406 0.006 65
New York 687 2614 0.004 36
Texas 313 5988 0.002 15
New Jersey 256 3573 0.003 30
Washington 239 2953 0.004 41
Top States for CHI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,197 1406 0.006 65
Washington 239 2953 0.004 41
New York 687 2614 0.004 36
Delaware 25 5057 0.003 32
New Jersey 256 3573 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of CHI

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 CHI 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 CHI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 402 7.01
White (Caucasian) 127 2.21
Mixed Race 113 1.97
Black/African American 54 0.94
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.24
Asian/Pacific 5,025 87.62

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

Meaning of CHI in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHI.

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 CHI

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