Chase Family History
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Chase Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or rather a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare). Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a house, probably the occupier of the most distinguished house in the village, from a southern derivative of Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Chasse, Case, Hase, Clare, Close, Halse, Cale, Char, Kase, Hast