Chatelain Surname
Approximately 16,639 people bear this surname
Chatelain Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 11,261 | 1:5,898 | 498 |
| United States | 2,269 | 1:159,744 | 16,270 |
| Canada | 923 | 1:39,919 | 4,984 |
| Switzerland | 727 | 1:11,297 | 1,860 |
| Belgium | 324 | 1:35,483 | 5,784 |
| Argentina | 305 | 1:140,142 | 11,866 |
| Haiti | 269 | 1:39,717 | 2,575 |
| Mexico | 92 | 1:1,349,198 | 15,373 |
| Colombia | 61 | 1:783,182 | 8,365 |
| Dominican Republic | 46 | 1:226,803 | 8,136 |
| Netherlands | 44 | 1:383,799 | 41,363 |
| New Caledonia | 36 | 1:7,673 | 1,760 |
| Germany | 36 | 1:2,236,263 | 117,794 |
| Ivory Coast | 30 | 1:769,041 | 20,891 |
| Brazil | 27 | 1:7,928,679 | 178,836 |
| French Polynesia | 25 | 1:11,232 | 2,339 |
| England | 22 | 1:2,532,639 | 91,802 |
| Sweden | 20 | 1:492,338 | 35,486 |
| Mongolia | 19 | 1:148,699 | 8,761 |
| Thailand | 19 | 1:3,717,808 | 320,775 |
| Australia | 13 | 1:2,076,592 | 93,242 |
| Jamaica | 10 | 1:286,995 | 7,581 |
| Spain | 8 | 1:5,844,004 | 86,878 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Vanuatu | 4 | 1:65,819 | 1,151 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Bahamas | 2 | 1:195,876 | 1,708 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 11 | 1:2,215,943 | 64,354 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 111 | 1:452,421 | 32,615 |
The alternate forms: Châtelain (595) are calculated separately.
Chatelain (43) may also be a first name.
Chatelain Demographics
Average Chatelain Salary in
United States
$46,501 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Chatelain Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chatelain Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chatelain occurs more in France more than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant: Châtelain. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chatelain? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chatelain is the 32,041st most common surname throughout the world, held by around 1 in 437,980 people. The surname Chatelain is mostly found in Europe, where 75 percent of Chatelain live; 74 percent live in Western Europe and 72 percent live in Gallo-Europe. Chatelain is also the 1,545,828th most numerous first name at a global level, borne by 43 people.
It is most frequent in France, where it is carried by 11,261 people, or 1 in 5,898. In France Chatelain is primarily found in: Hauts-de-France, where 19 percent reside, Île-de-France, where 19 percent reside and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 14 percent reside. Outside of France this surname exists in 51 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 14 percent reside and Canada, where 6 percent reside.
Chatelain Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Chatelain has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 2,044 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 200 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Chatelain Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Chatelain surname are 20.53% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 67.3% being registered with the political party.
The amount Chatelain earn in different countries varies notably. In Colombia they earn 0.66% more than the national average, earning $22,851,400 COP per year; in United States they earn 7.77% more than the national average, earning $46,501 USD per year and in Canada they earn 7.45% less than the national average, earning $45,983 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Chatelain
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