Chancellor

3,919 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chancellor in the 2020 census, making it the 8,096th most common in the country. That is about one person in 76,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,919
Rank: 8,096th
How common: 1 in 76,300
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.0%
Black, not Hispanic 15.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Chancellor

Justin Chancellor (born 1971)English musician; book and record store owner
Anna Chancellor (born 1965)English actress
Richard Chancellor (1521–1556)English explorer and navigator
Philip the Chancellor (1165–1236)French writer and theologian
Jhon Chancellor (born 1992)Venezuelan association football player
John Chancellor (1927–1996)American TV journalist

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

Surnames like Chancellor

Also a first name

Chancellor has been given to 2,648 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2001. 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.