as a Last Name
- 10,060
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Chapin
Meaning & Origins
French and Spanish: from a reduced form of French eschapin or Spanish chapín, a term for a light (woman's) shoe; perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of footwear or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.
| 3,081st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,060
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Chapin per capita
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