as a Last Name
- 22,156
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Chappell
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel, from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa ‘hood’, ‘cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel’, ‘sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of St. Martin was preserved as a relic.
| 1,397th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 22,156
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Chappell per capita
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