How common is the surname Chard?

1,487 people in the United States had the surname Chard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,630 Americans. It ranked 18,550th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Chard?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Chard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Chard getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,487 in 2010, down 5.5%.

The surname Chard

A surname, carried by 1,487 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chard is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,487 people named Chard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,630 Americans. That is down 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,574.

#18,550

rank among US surnames

1,487

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-5.5%

change since 2000 (was #16,729)

Who is named Chard

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

92% of people named Chard identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Two or more races 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Chard

Chard has the Soundex code C630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C630.

Questions

How common is the surname Chard?: 1,487 people in the United States had the surname Chard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,630 Americans. It ranked 18,550th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Chard?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Chard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Chard getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,487 in 2010, down 5.5%.