as a Last Name
- 1,554
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Chain
Meaning & Origins
French: from Old French chain, a device for catching birds, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a bird-catcher or a hunter. In some cases it may be an American spelling of the French topographic surname Chêne (see Chene).
| 18,334th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,554
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Chain per capita
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