Chaffee is used as a family name or surname in French. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Chaffee
No. of characters: 7
Origin: French
Meaning: From French Chafe meaning to heat, to grow warm or angry or from chauffer, to warm, to cannonade, attack briskly

How popular is Chaffee?

Chaffee is common in United States.

Chaffee is ranked 59810 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Chaffee bearers increased by 4.578438 per cent in 2010 US census to 6053 since 2000, the surname slipped by 207 spots and ranked at 5729. The last name was found in around 20 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.62 94.83
Hispanic or Latino 1.9 1.19
Black 1.7 1.73
Others 1.69 1.47
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.81 0.57
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.28 0.21
Chaffee is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in United States which signifies that it is originated from United States. Around 7728 people have been found who wears Chaffee as their family name. Chaffee is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
32,086 Mexico3
21,529 Singapore2
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
5,726 Puerto Rico2
20,595 China2
9,116 Nicaragua1
846 American Samoa1
28,746 Algeria1
151,601 Spain1
289,511 England1
492,292 Ukraine1
153,416 Italy1
38,841 Scotland1
172,258 Germany1
118,015 Netherlands1
31,207 Ireland1
28,365 Kenya1
6,212 Jamaica1
66,560 Philippines1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
442,509 Russia12
120,934 Australia11
Countries with hundreds of Chaffee:
25,888 Canada133
Countries with thousands of Chaffee:
5,242 United States7,547
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Chaffee Namesakes

  • Nancy Chaffee, Tennis player
  • Nancy Chaffee, Tennis player
  • Jerome B. Chaffee, Former United States Senator
  • Roger B. Chaffee, Astronaut
  • Suzy Chaffee, Racer
  • Nancy Chaffee, Tennis player
  • Gary Chaffee, Author
  • Douglas Chaffee, Artist
  • John Chaffee, Author
  • Chris Chaffee, Politician

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