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chalk Name Meaning and History

English: from Old English cealc ‘chalk’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of chalk soil, or as a habitational name from any of the various places named with this word, as for example Chalk in Kent or Chalke in Wiltshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chalk Families in the US in 1920
Number of chalk families
 21-40
 8-20
 1-7
 0
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