Chandler

At the 2020 census, 73,879 Americans bore the surname Chandler — 440th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,046.

By the numbers

People: 73,879
Rank: 440th
How common: 1 in 4,046
Per 100,000: 24.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.5%
Black, not Hispanic 19.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Chandler

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)American novelist and screenwriter
Kyle Chandler (born 1965)American actor
Tyson Chandler (born 1982)American basketball player
Timothy Chandler (born 1990)American soccer player
Jeff Chandler (1918–1961)American actor and singer
Seth Carlo Chandler (1846–1913)American astronomer
Chas Chandler (1938–1996)English musician, record producer and manager
Sydney Chandler (born 1996)American actress

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

Surnames like Chandler

Also a first name

Chandler has been given to 46,892 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1999. 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.