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chase Name Meaning and History

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or rather a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
  2. Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a house, probably the occupier of the most distinguished house in the village, from a southern derivative of Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chase Families in the US in 1920
Number of chase families
 784-1566
 262-783		 1-261
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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