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    The surname Chain

    A surname, carried by 1,380 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C500

    Chain: #19,559 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Chain #19,559, 1,380 people Chain: #19,559 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Chain #19,559, 1,380 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chain is more common than 87.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,380 people named Chain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,729 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,411.

    #19,559
    rank among US surnames
    1,380
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #18,188)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,551Nepomuceno1,381223,567
    #19,559Walder1,380223,729
    #19,567Kilbourn1,379223,891

    Who is named Chain

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

    79% of people named Chain identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 4.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Chain

    Chain has the Soundex code C500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Chain?
    1,380 people in the United States had the surname Chain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,729 Americans. It ranked 19,559th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chain?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Chain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Chain getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,411 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,380 in 2010, down 2.2%.