Last Name CHESTER

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Meaning Local: Of Chester, the capital town of Cheshire. Chesters is modern and probably a kind of patronymic.
Local: From the city of Chester, the capital of Cheshire, England, founded by the Romans. The name is derived from the Latin 'Castrun;' Saxon, 'ceaster,' a fortified place, a city, a castle or camp, it being a Roman station where the twentieth legion was quartered. The Roman stations in England were generally so called, being sometimes varied in dialect to 'Chester,' 'Chaster,' or 'Caster,' the termination of many English towns, as Colchester, the camp on the river Coln; Doncaster, on the Don; Lancaster, on the Lon or Lune, etc.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, Hungarian

Rank 2,281 (2000 US census) 2,151 (1990 US census)
Count 14,595 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 68.46%, or 9992 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 26.54%, or 3874 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.58%, or 85 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.27%, or 185 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.79%, or 261 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.37%, or 200 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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