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The CHALFANT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,322 12282 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 770 6793 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +1552 -5489 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 2 265787 0 0
United Kingdom 1 35850 0 0
Top States for CHALFANT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 301 4674 0.003 27
Pennsylvania 246 6282 0.002 20
Indiana 202 3892 0.003 33
California 183 13690 0.001 5
Florida 141 12771 0.001 9
Top States for CHALFANT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 28 4869 0.004 36
Indiana 202 3892 0.003 33
Kansas 75 4521 0.003 28
Ohio 301 4674 0.003 27
Pennsylvania 246 6282 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of CHALFANT

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CHALFANT surname.

Ethnic distribution of CHALFANT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 38 1.64
Mixed Race 29 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.47
White (Caucasian) 2,235 96.25
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

CHALFANT is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CHALFANT in historical publications

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

Similar names to CHALFANT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHALFANT.

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 CHALFANT

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