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.

Chauncey Rank in US Top 1000

# 950 in the US

Popularity of the name Chauncey

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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

The name 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"