Chauncey

Latin
"chancellor"

Chauncey Origin and Meaning

The name Chauncey is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "chancellor".

A name halfway between its old milquetoast image and a more jovial Irish-sounding contemporary one.

# 950 in the US

Chauncey Rank in US Top 1000

Chauncey Popularity

Famous People Named Chauncey

  • Chauncey Ray Billups
    American basketball player
  • Chauncey Leopardi
    American television and TV actor
  • Chauncey Mitchell Depew
    U.S. Senator from New York
  • Chauncey Antoine Davis
    American NFL football player
  • Chauncey Wright
    19th century American philosopher and mathematician who influenced American pragmatism
  • Chauncey "Hit
    Boy" Hollis, American hip,hop producer
  • Chauncey Goodrich
    Federalist lawyer, clergyman, and senator of Connecticut
  • Chauncey O'Toole
    Canadian rugby player
  • Chauncey Lamont Hawkins aka Loon
    American rapper
  • Chauncey Cleveland
    Former Governor of Connecticut
  • Chauncey Stubbs
    Instagram and Vine star
  • Chauncey "Black" Hannibal
    member of 90s R&B group Blackstreet
  • Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr.
    American journalist who was infamously shot in a Downtown Oakland street
  • Chauncey Yellow Robe aka Kills in the Woods/Canowicakte
    Native American Lakota educator and activist
  • Chauncey W. Brownell
    American politician and president of Vermont State Senate
  • Chauncey "Chon" Addison Day
    American cartoonist for the New Yorker
  • Chauncey Herbert Cooke
    American soldier and educator
  • Chauncey Washington
    American NFL player
  • John Chancellor "Chauncey" Olcott
    American actor and singer
  • Chauncey Milton "Chance" Vought
    American aviator and engineer

Chauncey in Pop Culture

  • Chauncey Darlington Butler
    main character on MTV's "Wonder Showzen"
  • Chauncey Gardiner aka Chance
    main character in Jerzy Kosinski's "Being There"
  • Chauncey Langeais
    character in "Hush Hush" by Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Chauncey
    dog on TV's "Mad Men"