Chesley

At the 2020 census, 2,606 Americans bore the surname Chesley — 11,542nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 115,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,606
Rank: 11,542nd
How common: 1 in 115,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Black, not Hispanic 9.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Surnames like Chesley

Also a first name

Chesley has been given to 2,919 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1923. 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.