Last Name CHAMBERS

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Meaning Local: Of the chamber. Chambers is in many cases as official as Chamberlain. Both surnames arose from the exchequer room in which the revenue was paid. To pay 'in cameram' was to pay into the exchequer, and the 'camerarius,' or chamberlain, had the charge thereof.
Vide Chalmers.
One of the clan Cameron of Scotland, going to France, put his name in a Latin dress, as was customary in those times, styling himself 'De Cameraria,' which was called in French, 'De la Chambre,' and upon his return to Scotland, he was again, according to their dialect, called 'Chambers.' 'Chalmers' is a corruption of the same.
Origin English, Scottish, Jewish, Lithuanian, Native American, Irish, Falkland, South african, Hungarian

Rank 305 (2000 US census) 290 (1990 US census)
Count 90,325 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 68.8%, or 62144 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 26.93%, or 24325 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.36%, or 325 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.56%, or 506 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.78%, or 1608 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.57%, or 1418 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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