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The CHU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,381 1328 0.009 90
United States (1880 census) 196 19643 0 4
Change since 1880 +24185 +18315 +N/A +86
Other Countries
Australia 1,429 1145 0.009 87
United Kingdom 941 5528 0.002 20
Top States for CHU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 10,244 273 0.030 302
New York 3,428 441 0.018 181
Texas 1,280 1845 0.006 61
New Jersey 1,195 680 0.014 142
Massachusetts 878 995 0.014 138
Top States for CHU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 10,244 273 0.030 302
Hawaii 345 201 0.028 285
New York 3,428 441 0.018 181
New Jersey 1,195 680 0.014 142
Massachusetts 878 995 0.014 138

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

Classification and Origin of CHU

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 CHU 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 CHU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 673 2.76
White (Caucasian) 602 2.47
White (Hispanic) 297 1.22
Asian/Pacific 22,765 93.37
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 CHU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CHU in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHU.

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 CHU

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