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CHAMBERS : Occupational name for one who looked after the master bedroom, from Norman French cambre "chamber, room".
CHANCE : From a nickname for a lucky person or a gambler.
CHANCELLOR : Occupational name for an administrator, a chancellor, from Norman French chancelier.
CHANDLER : Occupational surname meaning "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately derived from Old French.
CHAPMAN : Occupational name for a merchant, from Old English ceapmann.
CHAPUT : From a diminutive of the old French word chape "cloak, hood". The name referred to a person who made or sold cloaks, or often wore one.
CHARBONNEAU : Derived from a diminutive form of French charbon "charcoal". The name was most likely a nickname for a person with black hair or a dark complexion.
CHARMCHI : Means "leather worker" in Persian, from charm "leather" combined with chi, denoting an occupation.
CHARRON : Meant "cart" in Old French. The name was probably used to denote a carter or a cartwright.
CHASE : Occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English chase "hunt".
CHASTAIN : From Old French castan "chestnut tree" (Latin castanea), hence a topographic name for someone living near a particular chestnut tree or group of them,...
CHAVEZ : From the Spanish word llaves meaning "keys". It was a name for a key maker.
CHEN : From Chinese 陈 (chén) meaning "exhibit, display, old, ancient" and also referring to the former state of Chen, which existed in what is now Henan p...
CHESHIRE : Originally indicated a person from Cheshire, England.
CHEVALIER : Derived from chevalier, a nickname meaning "knight", which was from cheval, the French word for "horse", ultimately from Latin caballus.
CHEVROLET : From chèvre meaning "goat" and lait meaning "milk", perhaps a name used to describe a farmer who cultivated goats.
CHILIKOV : Patronymic name used in Bulgaria, but derived from the Turkish word chilik "steel".
CHLEBEK : Means "small loaf of bread" from Polish chleb "bread". It was most likely used to denote a baker.
CHMELA : Derived from Czech chmel "hops". The name probably referred to a person who grew hops. Hops is a plant whose dried flowers are used in brewing beer.
CHMIEL : Polish cognate of CHMELA, from Polish chmiel.
CHO : Korean form of ZHAO, from Sino-Korean 趙 (jo).