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The CHOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 15,650 2124 0.006 58
United States (1880 census) 245 16627 0 5
Change since 1880 +15405 +14503 +N/A +53
Other Countries
Australia 1,521 1075 0.009 93
United Kingdom 1,027 5161 0.002 22
Top States for CHOW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 7,115 434 0.021 210
New York 1,976 869 0.010 104
Texas 775 2982 0.004 37
New Jersey 592 1523 0.007 70
Massachusetts 586 1559 0.009 92
Top States for CHOW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 464 125 0.038 383
California 7,115 434 0.021 210
New York 1,976 869 0.010 104
Massachusetts 586 1559 0.009 92
Washington 541 1328 0.009 92

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

Classification and Origin of CHOW

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 CHOW 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 CHOW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 584 3.73
White (Caucasian) 556 3.55
White (Hispanic) 479 3.06
Black/African American 92 0.59
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.1
Asian/Pacific 13,924 88.97

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

Meaning of CHOW in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHOW.

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 CHOW

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