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Origin Of The Surname Chilvers
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Meaning Of The Surname Chilvers
Descendant of Ceolfrith
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Interesting
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Chilvers
Chilvers is a patronymic surname coming from an extinct first name. It comes from the Old English first name Ceolfrith, which is made up of the elements ‘ceol’ and ‘frith’ combined to mean ‘Ship of Peace’. Its use as a surname would have been patronymic, and this is denoted by the suffixed ‘s’ which gives the name the meaning of ‘of Cealfrith’. Patronymic surnames were traditionally given to pass down the name of a father to his kin. |
Chilvers Statistics
Chilvers is the number 1059 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,535 share the surname Chilvers in the UK.
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