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    The surname Chunn

    A surname, carried by 2,396 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C500

    Chunn: #12,850 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Chunn #12,850, 2,396 people Chunn: #12,850 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Chunn #12,850, 2,396 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chunn is more common than 92.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,396 people named Chunn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 128,859 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,242.

    #12,850
    rank among US surnames
    2,396
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.9%
    change since 2000 (was #12,654)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,842Bridgers2,397128,805
    #12,850Camilo2,396128,859
    #12,856Cliff2,395128,913

    Who is named Chunn

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

    66% of people named Chunn identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 4.1%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Chunn

    Chunn has the Soundex code C500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Chunn?
    2,396 people in the United States had the surname Chunn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 128,859 Americans. It ranked 12,850th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chunn?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Chunn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Chunn getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,242 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,396 in 2010, up 6.9%.