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The chastain Surname

chastain Name Meaning and History

French: from Old French castan(h) ‘chestnut tree’ (Latin castanea), hence a topographic name for someone living near a particular chestnut tree or group of them, or possibly a nickname for someone with chestnut-colored hair.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chastain Families in the US in 1920
Number of chastain families
 127-252
 43-126		 1-42
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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