as a Last Name
- 610
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Chipley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from places called Chipley, in Somerset and Devon, or from Chipley Abbey in Suffolk, each having as the second element Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. In the case of Chipley, Somerset, the first element was probably the Old English personal name Cippa, while Chipley in Devon is named with Old English cēap ‘price’, ‘purchase’, and the Suffolk place name derives from Old English cipp ‘log’.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 610
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Chipley per capita
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