Chauncey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An American surname from Old French, of Norman origin from a place name in France
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtʃɔnsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chauncey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 57K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 116K
- GYGuyana1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An American surname from Old French, of Norman origin from a place name in France.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chauncey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Chauncey | 18 |
| US United States | 5,801 | 1 in 57K | 5.3K | Chauncey | 359 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 116K | listed | Chauncey | 40 |
| AO Angola | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Chauncey | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Chauncey | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Chauncey | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chauncey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a French surname; uncertain origin
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chauncey Langdonb. 1763USAmerican politician (1763-1830)
- Chauncey Allen Goodrichb. 1790USAmerican lexicographer
- Chauncey Depewb. 1834USAmerican politician (1834–1928)
- Susan Coolidgeb. 1835USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1835–1905)
- Chauncey Forward Blackb. 1839USAmerican politician (1839–1904)
- Chauncey Sparksb. 1884USAmerican politician (1884-1968)
- Chauncey C. Loomisb. 1930USAmerican writer
- Chauncey Steele IIIb. 1944USUS American tennis player
- Chauncey Billupsb. 1976USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Chauncey Leopardib. 1981USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,545 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chauncey mean, and where does it come from?
- An American surname from Old French, of Norman origin from a place name in France. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chauncey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtʃɔnsi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Chauncey a male or female name?
- Chauncey is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chauncey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Chauncey in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chauncey.
- Where is Chauncey most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chauncey is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Chauncey?
- In the etymology graph, Chance is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Chauncey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,801 people named Chauncey in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaunceyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chauncey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.