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    The surname Chidsey

    An English place surname, carried by 335 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C320

    Chidsey: #60,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Chidsey #60,196, 335 people Chidsey: #60,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Chidsey #60,196, 335 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chidsey is more common than 62.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from the village of Chedzoy in Somerset, from the Old English personal name Cedd + -s- + īeġ (“island”).

    Chidsey 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 335 people named Chidsey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 921,628 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 333.

    #60,196
    rank among US surnames
    335
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #57,252)

    Who is named Chidsey

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

    97% of people named Chidsey identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, 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 Chidsey

    Chidsey has the Soundex code C320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C320.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Chidsey come from?
    Habitational surname from the village of Chedzoy in Somerset, from the Old English personal name Cedd + -s- + īeġ (“island”).
    How common is the surname Chidsey?
    335 people in the United States had the surname Chidsey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 921,628 Americans. It ranked 60,196th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chidsey?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Chidsey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Chidsey?
    Chidsey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Chidsey getting more or less common?
    More common. 333 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 335 in 2010, up 0.6%.