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chamberlain Name Meaning and History

English: status name from Old French chambrelain, Norman French cambrelanc, cambrelen(c) ‘chamberlain’ (of Germanic origin, from kamer ‘chamber’, ‘room’, Latin camera (see Chambers) + the diminutive suffix -(l)ing). This was originally the name of an official in charge of the private chambers of his master.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The chamberlain name in History

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Distribution of chamberlain Families in the US in 1920
Number of chamberlain families
 260-517
 87-259		 1-86
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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