Chaves

7,444 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chaves in the 2020 census, making it the 4,623rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 40,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,444
Rank: 4,623rd
How common: 1 in 40,200
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Ibero-Romance

From Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish Chaves, a city and castle in Portugal.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 50.3%
White, not Hispanic 42.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Chaves

Rodrigo Chaves (born 1961)49th president of Costa Rica
Esteban Chaves (born 1990)Road racing cyclist
Pedro Chaves (born 1965)Portuguese racecar driver
Manuel Chaves González (born 1945)Spanish politician
Michael Chaves (born 1984)American film director
Richard Chaves (born 1951)American actor
Soraia Chaves (born 1982)Model and actress
Aureliano Chaves (1929–2003)Brazilian politician

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

Surnames like Chaves

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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.