Chichester
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Chichester’, Sussex (‘Cissa’s Roman town’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chichester is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Chichester’, Sussex (‘Cissa’s Roman town’)
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chichester counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.8K | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 281 | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 8 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 2 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)
Chichester is also recorded in 5 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 Chichester (Sussex); first attested James de Cicestrie 1225 Cur (Sussex)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8504).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, town, England
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Irish, A prominent toponymic name in Ulster since the beginning of the seventeenth century. Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Portuguese, Chichester (a cathedral city, civil parish, and local government district of West Sussex, England)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichesterb. 1563GBEnglish peer (1563-1625)
- Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegallb. 1739IEBritish politician (1739-1799)
- George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegallb. 1797GBBritish politician (1797-1883)
- Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemoreb. 1797GBBritish politician, 1797-1837
- Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingfordb. 1823FRBritish politician (1823-1898)
- Chichester Bellb. 1848IEBritish chemist
- Francis Chichesterb. 1901GBNew Zealand yacht racer (1901–1972)
- Edward Chichester, 6th Marquess of Donegallb. 1903GBIrish noble (1903-1975)
- Chet Forrestb. 1915USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre (1915-1999)
- Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegallb. 1916GBIrish noble (1916-2007)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,464 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 281 | #355 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #215 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Chichester mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Chichester’, Sussex (‘Cissa’s Roman town’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Chichester have the most bearers?
- Chichester is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Chichester?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chichesterThe 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, “Chichester”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.