Chinchilla

At the 2020 census, 4,102 Americans bore the surname Chinchilla — 7,766th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 72,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,102
Rank: 7,766th
How common: 1 in 72,900
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Chinchilla. This surname is mostly found in Costa Rica.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.8%
White, not Hispanic 6.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Chinchilla

Laura Chinchilla (born 1959)46th President of Costa Rica
Pablo Chinchilla (born 1978)Costa Rican footballer

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

Surnames like Chinchilla

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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.