Chalmers

6,009 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chalmers in the 2020 census, making it the 5,585th most common in the country. That is about one person in 49,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,009
Rank: 5,585th
How common: 1 in 49,700
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.3%
Black, not Hispanic 24.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Chalmers

David Chalmers (born 1966)Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist
Mario Chalmers (born 1986)American basketball player
Kyle Chalmers (born 1998)Australian swimmer
Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847)Scottish mathematician and leader of the Free Church of Scotlandl
Angela Chalmers (born 1963)Canadian female distance runner
Stevie Chalmers (1935–2019)Scottish footballer
Vicki Chalmers (born 1989)Scottish and British curler
Alan Chalmers (born 1939)British-Australian philosopher of science

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

Surnames like Chalmers

Also a first name

Chalmers has been given to 1,082 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1919. See it as a given name.

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.