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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

'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.

Meaning of MCCHESNEY in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MCCHESNEY

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