Chamberlain

Chamberlain is the 1,243rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 27,832 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,700.

By the numbers

People: 27,832
Rank: 1,243rd
How common: 1 in 10,700
Per 100,000: 9.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)American physicist
Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937)British politician
Richard Chamberlain (1934–2025)American actor
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914)British politician
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927)British-German racialist philosopher
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914)American military officer, professor, and 32nd Governor of Maine
Marise Chamberlain (1935–2024)New Zealand middle-distance runner

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

Surnames like Chamberlain

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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.