French: habitational name, most probably from a place name
derived from a Romano-Gallic estate named with the personal name
Cantius + the locative suffix -acum. variant of
Chancey.Variant spelling of Chancey.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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