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The surname Czaja

A Polish surname, carried by 1,158 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C200

Czaja: #22,260 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Czaja #22,260, 1,158 people Czaja: #22,260 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Czaja #22,260, 1,158 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Czaja is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Czaja.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,158 people named Czaja in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 266,620 Americans. That is up 7.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,076.

#22,260
rank among US surnames
1,158
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+7.6%
change since 2000 (was #22,336)

Who is named Czaja

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

97% of people named Czaja identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.0% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 97%
  • Two or more races 1.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Czaja

Czaja has the Soundex code C200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C200.

Other Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Czaja come from?
Borrowed from Polish Czaja.
How common is the surname Czaja?
1,158 people in the United States had the surname Czaja in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 266,620 Americans. It ranked 22,260th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Czaja?
In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Czaja identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.0% as two or more races.
Is the surname Czaja getting more or less common?
More common. 1,076 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,158 in 2010, up 7.6%.