Chapin

See also: chápǐn

English

Etymology

• As a Spanish and French surname, from the noun chapín (“type of overshoe”).
• As an English surname, variant of Chopin, also found as the variants Chopping, Chappin.

Proper noun

Chapin (plural Chapins)

1. A surname.
   • 2024 August 8, Jonathan van Harmelen, “The Little-Known Group That Pioneered Watergate’s Dirty Tricks—and Changed American Politics”, in TIME‎, archived from the original on 14 August 2024:

     Chapin met Nixon during his third year at USC. A year later, H.R. Halderman recruited Chapin to work on Nixon’s 1962 unsuccessful California gubernatorial campaign, and Chapin brought Segretti, and Ziegler along.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Chapin is the 3510^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10175 individuals. Chapin is most common among White (94.16%) individuals.

Anagrams

• apinch