Chaffin

Chaffin is the 3,784th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,153 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,700.

By the numbers

People: 9,153
Rank: 3,784th
How common: 1 in 32,700
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

A nickname for a bald man, from Middle English chaffin, a diminutive of Old French chauf (“bald”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.2%
Black, not Hispanic 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Chaffin

Ceán Chaffin (born 1957)American film producer
Jessica Chaffin (born 1982)American actress

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

Surnames like Chaffin

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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.