Challinor
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/tʃaʎɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Challinor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire, Staffs, and.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 3.5M
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
240 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire, Staffs, and. occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle English chaloun ‘blanket’, for a maker of or dealer in blankets or coverlets, and named after the original place of manufacture, Châlons-surMarne. Further information: ‘Chalons of Guildford’ were bought for the king’s use at Winchester Fair in 1252 (Salzman, Industries).
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Challinor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 240 | 1 in 1.4M | 240 | Challinor | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 13 | 1 in 3.5M | 13 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Challinor | 4 |
240 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Richard Westman Challinorb. 1871botanist (1871-1951)
- Samuel Challinorb. 1890GBFootballer (1890-1963)
- John Challinorb. 1895GBauthor
- Jack Challinorb. 1916GBEnglish footballer and manager (1916-1981)
- Jim Challinorb. 1934GBEnglish rugby union footballer, and rugby league footballer and coach
- Deborah Challinorb. 1959NZNew Zealand historian and novelist
- Dave Challinorb. 1975GBEnglish association football player and manager (born 1975)
- Jon Challinorb. 1980GBEnglish association football player
- Andrew ChallinorGBBritish climate researcher
- Victoria L ChallinorAUresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 240 | #79,338 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 232 | #76,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 13 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Challinor mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire, Staffs, and. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Challinor?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃaʎɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Challinor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 240 people named Challinor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled challinor.
- Where is Challinor most common?
- Challinor is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Challinor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 240 people named Challinor in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/challinorThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Challinor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.