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chaplin Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: occupational name for a clergyman, or perhaps for the servant of one, from Middle English, Old French chapelain ‘chantry priest’, a priest endowed to sing mass daily on behalf of the souls of the dead (Late Latin capellanus).
  2. Ukrainian and Belorussian: patronymic from the nickname Chaplya, from the dialect word chaplya ‘heron’, ‘stork’ (Russian tsaplya), referring to a man with long, thin legs or perhaps one who was shy and easily frightened.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chaplin Families in the US in 1920
Number of chaplin families
 54-106
 19-53		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 127 - Messages: 382
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Stoke by Clare, Suffolk / Essex borders, England Stephen Syddell 2
Chaplins from Warwickshire WendyKellow 2
CHAPLIN, John b. ca. 1813 PA. d. ca. 1887 W.VA. U.S.A. Mackietwo 2
William Chaplin & Jane karenwhittom 2
Orril R. Chaplin jtcnhvn 0
CHAPLINE of MD WHEELING, VA / WV Jerry Bruhn 20
now have over 2,600 names Stephanie Jeffres 22
Caleb Chaplin purl131 0
James Chaplin Carrie Benton 9
OBIT Cletta Pruitt Chaplin 1925-2007 KandyBackAgee 0
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