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    The surname Chesterman

    An English place surname, carried by 403 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C236

    Chesterman: #51,610 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Chesterman #51,610, 403 people Chesterman: #51,610 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Chesterman #51,610, 403 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chesterman is more common than 68.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Perhaps from Old English ċeaster (“city, town”) + mann (“man”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near a Roman fort or a habitational surname for someone from any of various places called Chester.

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 403 people named Chesterman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 766,118 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 383.

    #51,610
    rank among US surnames
    403
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #51,119)

    Who is named Chesterman

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

    96% of people named Chesterman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Chesterman

    Chesterman has the Soundex code C236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C236.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Chesterman come from?
    Perhaps from Old English ċeaster (“city, town”) + mann (“man”), a topographic surname for someone who lived near a Roman fort or a habitational surname for someone from any of various places called Chester.
    How common is the surname Chesterman?
    403 people in the United States had the surname Chesterman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 766,118 Americans. It ranked 51,610th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chesterman?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Chesterman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Chesterman?
    Chesterman is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Chesterman getting more or less common?
    More common. 383 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 403 in 2010, up 5.2%.