Chaplin

Chaplin is the 5,566th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,030 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,030
Rank: 5,566th
How common: 1 in 49,600
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

An occupational surname for a chaplain, from Middle English and Old French chapelain.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.4%
Black, not Hispanic 19.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)English actor and filmmaker
Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944)British-American actress
Oona Castilla Chaplin (born 1986)Spanish actress
Ben Chaplin (born 1969)British actor
Sydney Chaplin (1926–2009)American film and theater actor
Sydney Chaplin (1885–1965)English actor
Josephine Chaplin (1949–2023)American actress
Tom Chaplin (born 1979)British musician

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

Surnames like Chaplin

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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.