Chisholm
12,345 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chisholm in the 2020 census, making it the 2,841st most common in the country. That is about one person in 24,200.
By the numbers
- People
- 12,345
- Rank
- 2,841st
- How common
- 1 in 24,200
- Per 100,000
- 4.1
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
Scottish habitational surname, from Old English ċīese (“cheese”) + holm (“piece of dry land in a fen”) or helm (“shed, barn”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Chisholm described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Chisholm
- Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005)first black woman elected to the United States Congress
- Brock Chisholm (1896–1971)Canadian psychiatrist and director-general of the World Health Organization
- Hugh Chisholm (1866–1924)English editor and journalist
- Sallie W. Chisholm (born 1947)American oceanographer, marine biologist
- Roderick Chisholm (1916–1999)American philosopher and logician
- Grace Chisholm Young (1878–1944)English mathematician
- Tanya Chisholm (born 1983)American actress
- Erik Chisholm (1904–1965)20th century Scottish composer and conductor
People named Chisholm with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Chisholm
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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.