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The chancey Surname

chancey Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the various places in France named Chancé.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Schanze, a habitational name from Schanze, a place in the Upper Rhine, or a variant of Schantz.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chancey Families in the US in 1920
Number of chancey families
 27-52
 10-26		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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