Chaney

Chaney is the 1,084th most common surname in the United States, shared by 31,687 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,433.

By the numbers

People: 31,687
Rank: 1,084th
How common: 1 in 9,433
Per 100,000: 10.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

Variant of Chesney.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.9%
Black, not Hispanic 23.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Chaney

Lon Chaney (1883–1930)American actor
Lon Chaney Jr. (1906–1973)American actor
Don Chaney (born 1946)American basketball player and coach
Norman Chaney (1914–1936)American child actor

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

Surnames like Chaney

Also a first name

Chaney has been given to 1,783 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 2003. 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.