Chesney

Where Chesney comes from

From Norman place names meaning “oak grove” (cognate to French chênaie), from Picard quesne, from Vulgar Latin *cassanus, probably from Gaulish kassanos (“oak”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Chesney
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #6,362 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2005
    Peak, #1,553
    131 babies named Chesney — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,869.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.