Given name & surname
Chevalier
“a knight or horseman”
Chevalier is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “a knight or horseman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “a knight or horseman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chevalier through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 27 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 6 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 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 115 as a first name in 2020; 6,553 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.
Chevalier’s family of names
Chevalier has a related form in Chevy. Chevalier has a related form in Chevell. Chevalier has a related form in Cheval.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Chevyvariant
- Chevellvariant
- Chevelvariant
- Cheveevariant
- Chevievariant
- Chevivariant
- Chevalvariant
- Chevallierlikely variant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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