Popularity of the last name by country
United Kingdom
- Kent (26,232)
- London (14,490)
- Warwickshire (13,607)
- Lincolnshire (12,679)
- North Yorkshire (12,346)
- Lancashire (10,679)
- Norfolk (8,919)
- Derbyshire (8,511)
- County Durham (6,260)
- Northumberland (5,905)
- Northamptonshire (5,613)
- Herefordshire and Worcester (5,280)
- Staffordshire (5,130)
- Nottinghamshire (4,918)
- Cambridgeshire (4,731)
- Gloucestershire (4,391)
- Hampshire (4,275)
- Cumbria (4,219)
- Strathclyde (4,023)
- Suffolk (3,952)
- Surrey (3,700)
- Hertfordshire (3,477)
- Essex (3,247)
- Lothian (2,603)
- Bedfordshire (2,425)
- Wiltshire (1,952)
- Leicestershire (1,895)
- Antrim (1,645)
- Shropshire (1,438)
- Somerset (1,217)
- Dorset (1,188)
- Armagh (1,083)
- Buckinghamshire (1,049)
- East Sussex (984)
- Devon (929)
- West Sussex (923)
- Berkshire (913)
- Down (899)
- Fifeshire (892)
- Oxfordshire (771)
- Central (709)
- Tayside (621)
- West Yorkshire (607)
- Londonderry (606)
- Cheshire (591)
- South Yorkshire (532)
- Orkney Isles (389)
- Cornwall (387)
- Tyne and Wear (384)
- Dumfries and Galloway (354)
- West Midlands (270)
- Gwynedd (236)
- Isle of Wight (208)
- Gwent (205)
- Grampian (191)
- Merseyside (187)
- Avon (176)
- Cleveland (152)
- Clwyd (126)
- Dyfed (100)
All countries
- United Kingdom (228,146)
- United States (103,389)
- Ireland (21,891)
- New Zealand (12,740)
- Australia (8,755)
- Canada (4,206)
- France (2,828)
- Unknown country (2,311)
- Italy (976)
- Netherlands (452)
- Germany (432)
- India (343)
- Belgium (327)
- Jamaica (277)
- Switzerland (197)
- Ecuador (185)
- Spain (146)
- Portugal (118)
- Mexico (113)
- Samoa (109)
- Turkey (104)
- Colombia (98)
- Sweden (94)
- China (71)
- Russian Federation (67)
- Egypt (53)
- Greece (48)
- Poland (45)
- South Africa (45)
- Denmark (44)
- Paraguay (41)
- Israel (36)
- Norway (36)
- Argentina (35)
- Lebanon (31)
- Peru (30)
- Cuba (29)
- Austria (26)
- Indonesia (25)
- Iraq (20)
Origine of last name
CHAMBERS : English:: 1: from Middle English chaumbre ‘room (in a house); reception room in a palace or official building’ (Old French chambre). It is identical in implied function with the <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Chamberlain">Chamberlain</a> which denoted an official: to pay in cameram was to pay into the exchequer of which the camerarius or chamberer was in charge. The surname also applied to clerks employed there. As the office of Chamberlain rose in the social scale this term remained reserved for more humble servants of the bedchamber or private quarters.2: (of Norman origin): habitational name from Les Chambres Manche (France).
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