Given name & surname · also French
Chastain
“chestnut”
Chastain is a surname from French, ultimately from Old French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Chastain goes back to Old French chastaigne, meaning “chestnut.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Chastain comes from French, and ultimately from Old French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From French Chastain, from Old French chastaigne (“chestnut”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chastain through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 5 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 5 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 boys is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 124 as a first name in 2020; 13,146 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.
Chastain’s family of names
In French usage, Chastain has a later derivative in CHASTEEN. In English usage, Chastain as a surname has a related form in CHESTANG.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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