Chapin

See also: chápǐn

English

Etymology

  • As a Spanish and French surname, from the noun chapín (“type of overshoe”).
  • As an English surname, variant of Chopin, also found as the variants Chopping, Chappin.

Proper noun

Chapin (plural Chapins)

  1. A surname.
    • 2024 August 8, Jonathan van Harmelen, “The Little-Known Group That Pioneered Watergate’s Dirty Tricks—and Changed American Politics”, in TIME‎[1], archived from the original on 14 August 2024:
      Chapin met Nixon during his third year at USC. A year later, H.R. Halderman recruited Chapin to work on Nixon’s 1962 unsuccessful California gubernatorial campaign, and Chapin brought Segretti, and Ziegler along.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Chapin is the 3510th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10175 individuals. Chapin is most common among White (94.16%) individuals.

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