Chaffee

Chaffee is the 5,797th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,752 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 52,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,752
Rank: 5,797th
How common: 1 in 52,000
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

From Old French chauf (“bald”), perhaps through Norman.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Chaffee

Roger Bruce Chaffee (1935–1967)United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut
Adna Chaffee (1842–1914)2nd Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Adna R. Chaffee Jr. (1884–1941)United States Army general
Suzy Chaffee (born 1946)American ski racer and actress

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

Surnames like Chaffee

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.