Popularity ranking · United States

The 100 most popular Chefs in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest chefs in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 236 chefs tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsey and Anne Burrell lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 14M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 482k, and the largest, Gordon Ramsay, reaches around 5.1M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each chef, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Geoffrey Zakarian 318k 46.8 60.8% Chef
27 Marco Pierre White 318k 23.4 96.7% Chef
28 Buddy Valastro 296k 39.3 80.5% Chef
29 Chef Robert Irvine 295k 34.3 57.8% Chef
30 Joe Bastianich 268k 34.6 50.3% Chef
31 Rick Bayless 255k 42.4 58.6% Chef
32 Michael Symon 255k 45.0 69.5% Chef
33 Stephanie Izard 253k 46.7 56.1% Chef
34 Curtis Stone 244k 46.3 56.0% Chef
35 Gary Danko 240k Chef
36 Bryan Voltaggio 234k 50.0 100.0% Chef
37 Scott Conant 230k 45.8 66.5% Chef
38 Tom Colicchio 226k 46.0 60.2% Chef
39 Auguste Escoffier 213k 41.3 63.0% Chef
40 Mr. Food 208k 51.1 88.0% Chef
41 Sunny Anderson 191k 34.7 65.1% Chef
42 Richard Blais 188k 38.6 60.6% Chef
43 Cat Cora 178k 38.3 56.6% Chef
44 Michael Smith (chef) 177k 47.3 75.7% Chef
45 Grant Achatz 177k 39.5 44.8% Chef
46 Alice Waters 174k 47.1 62.0% Chef
47 Graham Elliot 171k 39.2 60.2% Chef
48 Jeff Mauro 155k 40.2 72.2% Chef
49 Amanda Freitag 151k 46.2 64.8% Chef
50 Roy Choi 151k 35.3 52.8% Chef

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular chefs compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each chef by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest chef in United States?

Gordon Ramsay currently leads with an estimated audience of 5.1M people in United States.

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