Cha

At the 2020 census, 10,248 Americans bore the surname Cha — 3,410th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,200.

By the numbers

People: 10,248
Rank: 3,410th
How common: 1 in 29,200
Per 100,000: 3.4

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cha described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.7%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Cha

Cha Bum-kun (born 1953)South Korean association football player
Cha Du-ri (born 1980)South Korean footballer
Cha Tae-hyun (born 1976)South Korean actor, singer
Cha Min-kyu (born 1993)South Korean speed skater
Cha Seung-won (born 1970)South Korean actor
Cha Dong-Min (born 1986)South Korean taekwondo practitioner
Cha Ye-ryun (born 1985)South Korean actress
Cha Jun-hwan (born 2001)South Korean figure skater

People named Cha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cha

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.