Chapin Family History
Chapin Name Meaning
French and Spanish: from a reduced form of French eschapin
or Spanish chapín, a term for a light (woman’s) shoe;
perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of
footwear or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Chapin Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chapin families
 145 - 287  49 - 144 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chapin families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Chapin last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Chapin Family Origin
Chapin Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Chapin
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Chapin Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Chapin Civil War Service Records
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