Find out how popular the last name Chamberland is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Chamberland.

Chamberland, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Chamberland surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Chamberland in America

Chamberland is the 18703rd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Chamberland surname appeared 1,469 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Chamberland.

We can also compare 2010 data for Chamberland to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Chamberland

The surname Chamberland is of French origin and can be traced back to the regions of Normandy and Brittany in northern France during the medieval period. It is derived from the Old French words "chambre" meaning "room" or "chamber," and "lande" meaning "heathland" or "wasteland." This suggests that the name may have originally referred to someone who lived in or near a dwelling located on an uncultivated or barren area of land.

The earliest recorded instances of the Chamberland surname can be found in various historical documents from the 13th and 14th centuries in France. For example, a certain Jean Chamberland is mentioned in the "Rôles de l'Échiquier de Normandie" (Rolls of the Norman Exchequer) from the year 1295. Additionally, the name appears in the "Livre des Bourgeois de Rouen" (Book of Burghers of Rouen) in 1398.

One notable early bearer of the Chamberland surname was Jacques Chamberland (c. 1470-1540), a French jurist and legal scholar from Normandy. He served as the Lieutenant General of the Bailiwick of Rouen and authored several influential works on French customary law.

In the 16th century, the name Chamberland can be found in various regions of France, including Normandy, Brittany, and the Île-de-France region around Paris. One example is Guillaume Chamberland (c. 1520-1590), a wealthy merchant and landowner from the town of Verneuil-sur-Avre in Normandy.

The Chamberland surname also has a strong presence in the historical records of Quebec, Canada, due to the migration of French settlers to New France in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest recorded instances is that of Gabriel Chamberland, who arrived in Quebec in 1665 from the French province of Poitou.

Another notable bearer of the Chamberland name was Jean-Baptiste Chamberland (1725-1808), a French-Canadian farmer and militia officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Quebec and later settled in the Acadian region of present-day Nova Scotia.

As the Chamberland surname spread across France and later to French colonies in North America, it underwent various spelling variations, such as Chamberlain, Chamberlin, and Chamberlyn, reflecting regional linguistic differences and adaptations over time.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Chamberland

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Chamberland.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Chamberland was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Chamberland has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Chamberland was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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