How common is the surname Chesser?

5,675 people in the United States had the surname Chesser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,405 Americans. It ranked 6,047th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Chesser getting more or less common?

More common. 5,557 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,675 in 2010, up 2.1%.

The surname Chesser

A place surname, carried by 5,675 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chesser is more common than 96.3% of them.

Origin

Variant of Cheshire.

Chesser is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,675 people named Chesser in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,405 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,557.

#6,047

rank among US surnames

5,675

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.1%

change since 2000 (was #5,719)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,038	Benz	5,691	54,252
#6,039	Brummett	5,690	54,261
#6,040	McCrory	5,689	54,271
#6,041	Carmody	5,688	54,280
#6,043	Svoboda	5,686	54,299
#6,044	Bustillos	5,684	54,318
#6,045	Bivins	5,681	54,347

Who is named Chesser

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

93% of people named Chesser identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Chesser

Chesser has the Soundex code C260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C260.

Questions

Where does the surname Chesser come from?: Variant of Cheshire.
How common is the surname Chesser?: 5,675 people in the United States had the surname Chesser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,405 Americans. It ranked 6,047th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Chesser?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Chesser identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Chesser?: Chesser is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Chesser getting more or less common?: More common. 5,557 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,675 in 2010, up 2.1%.