First name origin & meaning: Old French: Hunter First name variations: Chace, Chasen, Chayce, Chayse Last name origins & meanings:
- 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’.
- Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in
the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in
Somerset Co., MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the
U.S. Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was
a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase
(1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a U.S. senator,
and secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Civil War.
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