as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of the various places in England named as the ‘specialized farm or industrial centre (Old English wīc) of Ceadda (see Chad) or Ceadel’. In modern use, this name is sometimes taken, wrongly, as a full form of Chad.
| 2,459th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,529
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 10,315
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Chadwick per capita
- 1975
- marked the height of its popularity
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