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    The surname Chamblee

    A surname, carried by 3,263 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C514

    Chamblee: #9,907 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Chamblee #9,907, 3,263 people Chamblee: #9,907 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Chamblee #9,907, 3,263 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chamblee is more common than 93.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,263 people named Chamblee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 94,620 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,137.

    #9,907
    rank among US surnames
    3,263
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #9,506)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,899Chacko3,26694,533
    #9,901Janik3,26594,562
    #9,902Stickler3,26494,591
    #9,907Chamblee3,26394,620
    #9,910Everly3,26294,649
    #9,912Mijares3,25994,736

    Who is named Chamblee

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

    75% of people named Chamblee identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Chamblee

    Chamblee has the Soundex code C514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C514.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Chamblee?
    3,263 people in the United States had the surname Chamblee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 94,620 Americans. It ranked 9,907th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chamblee?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Chamblee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Chamblee getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,137 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,263 in 2010, up 4.0%.