Given name & surname · also Old French
Chaffee
“bald”
Chaffee is a surname, possibly from Old French (ultimately Norman).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Chaffee possibly goes back to Old French chauf, meaning “bald.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Chaffee possibly comes from Old French, and ultimately from Norman.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chaffee through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 5 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1975. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,752 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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