Names

Means “son of Chavdar”.

Variant of Echeverría.

From a diminutive of French chauve “bald”.

Alternate transcription of Bengali চৌধুরী (see Chowdhury).

Alternate transcription of Hindi चौधरी (see Chaudhary).

From a title meaning “holder of four”, from Sanskrit चतुर् (chatur) meaning “four” and धुरीय (dhuriya) meaning “bearing a burden”.

Alternate transcription of Marathi चौधरी or Gujarati ચૌધરી (see Chaudhary).

Occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English chase “hunt”.

From Old French castan “chestnut tree” (Latin castanea), a name for someone who lived near a particular chestnut tree, or possibly a nickname for someone with chestnut-coloured hair.

Meant “cart” in Old French, used to denote a carter or a cartwright.