The surname Chasteen
A French surname, carried by 3,805 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C235
Origin
French origin
Americanized spelling of French Chastain.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,805 people named Chasteen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 81,142 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,802.
Who is named Chasteen
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Chasteen identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Chasteen has the Soundex code C235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C235.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Chasteen come from?
- Americanized spelling of French Chastain.
- How common is the surname Chasteen?
- 3,805 people in the United States had the surname Chasteen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 81,142 Americans. It ranked 8,641st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Chasteen?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Chasteen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Chasteen getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,802 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,805 in 2010, up 0.1%.