List of Baby Names for Boys Starting with C

Chapelle

(shah-PEHL)

Chappelle is a surname of French origin, a variant of the word "chapelle" meaning "chapel". Notable people with the name include: Bill Chappelle, American baseball player. Charles W. Chappelle (1872-1941), African-American aviation pioneer.

Meaning: Living near a church Origin: English, French

Chaplin

(CHAP-lin)

Chaplin is a surname of English, Ukrainian and Belarusian origin. Surnames of English origin are derived from the occupational name for a clergyman, while Ukrainian and Belarusian uses are derived from chaplya, meaning 'heron' or 'stork'.

Meaning: Priest, minister Origin: English

Chapman

(CHAP-mən)

Meaning. Business man or trader. Chapman is an English surname derived from the Old English occupational name céapmann “marketman, monger, merchant”, from the verb céapan, cypan “to buy or sell” and the noun form ceap "barter, business; a purchase."

Meaning: Tradesman Origin: English

Chati

(CHAAT)

Name Chati generally means The Caller, is of Native American origin, Name Chati is a Masculine (or Boy) name. .

Meaning: Life Origin: Thai

Chaucer

(CHAW-sər)

The surname Chaucer is thought to have one of the following derivations: The name Chaucer frequently occurs in the early Letter Books and in French language of the time it meant "shoemaker", which meaning is also recorded in the "Glossary of Anglo-Norman and Early English Words".

Meaning: Pants maker Origin: English, French

Chavez

(CHAH-vehz)

Chavez is also an alternate spelling of the Chaves surname, which in Portugal was often a habitational name from the town of Chaves, Tras-os-Montes, from the Latin aquis Flaviis, meaning "[at the] waters of Flavius." Chavez is the 22nd most common Hispanic surname. Surname Origin: Spanish, Portuguese.

Meaning: May God protect Origin: Hebrew, Spanish

Che

(CHE)

Spanish Meaning: The name Che is a Spanish baby name. In Spanish the meaning of the name Che is: God will increase; God will add. Abbreviation of Jose; Latin-American revolutionary Che Guevara.

Meaning: Hey Origin: Hebrew, Spanish

Cheney

(CHAY-nee)

The name Cheney is a French baby name. In French the meaning of the name Cheney is: From the oak wood. Oak tree; oak-hearted.

Meaning: An oak tree or grove Origin: French

Cheng

(CHENG)

From Chinese 成 (chéng) meaning "completed, finished, succeeded" or 诚 (chéng) meaning "sincere, honest, true", as well as other characters which are pronounced similarly.

Meaning: Journey Origin: Chinese

Chesney

(CHEHZ-nee)

Chesney Name Meaning. English, northern Irish, and French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai 'oak grove'.

Meaning: The person who dwells near the oak grove Origin: French