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    The surname Chae

    A Korean surname, carried by 2,628 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C000

    Chae: #11,914 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Chae #11,914, 2,628 people Chae: #11,914 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Chae #11,914, 2,628 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chae is more common than 92.7% of them.

    Origin

    Korean origin

    Borrowed from Korean 채(蔡) (Chae).

    One of 42 Korean surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,628 people named Chae in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,483 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,002.

    #11,914
    rank among US surnames
    2,628
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +31.3%
    change since 2000 (was #13,848)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,907Beauvais2,629117,438
    #11,914Cowgill2,628117,483
    #11,919Karsten2,627117,528

    Who is named Chae

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

    95% of people named Chae identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.9% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 95%
    • White (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Chae

    Chae has the Soundex code C000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C000.

    Other Korean surnames

    All 42 Korean surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Chae come from?
    Borrowed from Korean 채(蔡) (Chae).
    How common is the surname Chae?
    2,628 people in the United States had the surname Chae in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,483 Americans. It ranked 11,914th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chae?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Chae identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.9% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Chae getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,002 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,628 in 2010, up 31%.