How common is the surname Chacon?

27,982 people in the United States had the surname Chacon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,034 Americans. It ranked 1,255th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Chacon getting more or less common?

More common. 21,153 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 27,982 in 2010, up 32%.

The surname Chacon

A Spanish surname, carried by 27,982 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C250

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chacon is more common than 99.2% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

A surname from Spanish.

One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 27,982 people named Chacon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 11,034 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,153.

#1,255

rank among US surnames

27,982

people in 2010

9.5

per 100,000 Americans

+32.3%

change since 2000 (was #1,559)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,246	Dye	28,182	10,955
#1,247	Arthur	28,102	10,987
#1,248	Grace	28,098	10,988
#1,249	Baca	28,082	10,994
#1,250	Rutherford	28,079	10,996
#1,251	Sorensen	28,069	11,000
#1,252	McCray	28,024	11,017

Who is named Chacon

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

92% of people named Chacon identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 6.5% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 92%
White (not Hispanic) 6.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Two or more races 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Chacon

Chacon has the Soundex code C250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C250.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Chacon come from?: Chacon is Spanish in origin.
How common is the surname Chacon?: 27,982 people in the United States had the surname Chacon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,034 Americans. It ranked 1,255th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Chacon?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Chacon identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 6.5% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Chacon getting more or less common?: More common. 21,153 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 27,982 in 2010, up 32%.