The CHISHOLM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,027	2752	0.004	45
United States (1880 census)	1,895	3129	0.004	38
Change since 1880	+10132	+377	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	1,630	1001	0.01	100
United Kingdom	4,486	1396	0.01	98

Top States for CHISHOLM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,120	1858	0.007	70
Massachusetts	1,034	851	0.016	163
California	746	4014	0.002	22
Texas	656	3501	0.003	31
Michigan	612	1846	0.006	62
Top States for CHISHOLM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,034	851	0.016	163
New Hampshire	176	1105	0.014	142
Mississippi	321	1336	0.011	113
South Carolina	426	1558	0.011	106
Maine	116	1981	0.009	91

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

Classification and Origin of CHISHOLM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	222	1.85
White (Hispanic)	195	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	69	0.57
Asian/Pacific	63	0.52
White (Caucasian)	8,192	68.11
Black/African American	3,285	27.31

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

Similar names to CHISHOLM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHISHOLM.

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.