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    The surname Chaires

    A surname, carried by 1,743 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C620

    Chaires: #16,481 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Chaires #16,481, 1,743 people Chaires: #16,481 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Chaires #16,481, 1,743 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chaires is more common than 89.8% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,743 people named Chaires in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,135 Americans. That is up 39% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,257.

    #16,481
    rank among US surnames
    1,743
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +38.7%
    change since 2000 (was #19,806)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,475Lacher1,744177,033
    #16,481Chess1,743177,135

    Who is named Chaires

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

    73% of people named Chaires identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 19% as white (not Hispanic) and 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 73%
    • White (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.1%
    • Two or more races 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Chaires

    Chaires has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Chaires?
    1,743 people in the United States had the surname Chaires in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,135 Americans. It ranked 16,481st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chaires?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Chaires identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 19% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Chaires getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,257 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,743 in 2010, up 39%.