Chapin

At the 2020 census, 9,690 Americans bore the surname Chapin — 3,587th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,800.

By the numbers

People: 9,690
Rank: 3,587th
How common: 1 in 30,800
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

As a Spanish and French surname, from the noun chapín (“type of overshoe”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Chapin

Harry Chapin (1942–1981)American singer-songwriter
James Chapin (1889–1964)American ornithologist and scientific collector

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

Surnames like Chapin

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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.