The MCCHESNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,549	8545	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	67	41890	0	1
Change since 1880	+3482	+33345	+N/A	+12
Other Countries
Australia	30	37743	0	2
United Kingdom	296	12839	0.001	6

Top States for MCCHESNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	369	7254	0.001	11
Pennsylvania	333	4482	0.003	27
New York	247	7681	0.001	13
Florida	193	9485	0.001	12
Texas	169	10161	0.001	8
Top States for MCCHESNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	16	4373	0.003	32
Montana	29	4638	0.003	32
Vermont	18	4914	0.003	30
Colorado	120	4509	0.003	28
Pennsylvania	333	4482	0.003	27

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

Classification and Origin of MCCHESNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	37	1.04
White (Hispanic)	37	1.04
Asian/Pacific	22	0.62
Black/African American	15	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.28
White (Caucasian)	3,428	96.59

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

Similar names to MCCHESNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCCHESNEY.

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.