How common is the surname Chaffins?

1,171 people in the United States had the surname Chaffins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 263,660 Americans. It ranked 22,106th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Chaffins?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Chaffins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Chaffins getting more or less common?

More common. 1,135 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,171 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Chaffins

A surname, carried by 1,171 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C152

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chaffins is more common than 86.4% of them.

Origin

Variant of Chaffin.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,171 people named Chaffins in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 263,660 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,135.

#22,106

rank among US surnames

1,171

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #21,469)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#22,106	Cebula	1,171	263,660
#22,113	Mansoor	1,170	263,885

Who is named Chaffins

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

94% of people named Chaffins identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Chaffins

Cavins

Chaffins has the Soundex code C152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C152.

Questions

Where does the surname Chaffins come from?: Variant of Chaffin.
How common is the surname Chaffins?: 1,171 people in the United States had the surname Chaffins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 263,660 Americans. It ranked 22,106th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Chaffins?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Chaffins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Chaffins getting more or less common?: More common. 1,135 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,171 in 2010, up 3.2%.