Chambers
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person employed in a high-ranking person's private chambers
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃeɪmbəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chambers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 65th most common surname.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.5K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #943 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 538 (measured from records)
- 1 in 831 (inferred from the name graph)
94,988 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person employed in a high-ranking person's private chambers
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chambers counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #284 | 94,988 | 1 in 3.5K | 95K | Chambers | 538 |
| GB United Kingdom | #202 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | listed | Chambers | 293 |
| KP North Korea | #145 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Chambers | 2 |
| CA Canada | #296 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Chambers | 209 |
| AU Australia | #293 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Chambers | 195 |
| JM Jamaica | #65 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | #21 | Chambers | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | #252 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Chambers | 104 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 122 | 1 in 831 | 122 | — | 3 |
94,988 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chambers is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Occupational name from Scots chamber/chalmer ‘room’; a chamber attendant, from Old French de la Chambre. Early Latin form de Camera; de la Chaumbre in Lanarkshire, 1296.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, from OFr chambre ‘room’; originally official, identical with Chamberlain; first attested Nicholas de Chambres 1219
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, A numerous but scattered name of Anglo-Norman origin (de la chambre). It is mainly found in Ulster and Mayo. MIF See also MacCambridge
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Chambersb. 1723SEScottish-Swedish architect; (1723-1796)
- Henry H. Chambersb. 1790USAmerican politician (1790-1826)
- Robert W. Chambersb. 1865USAmerican artist, novelist, short story writer (1865–1933)
- Dorothea Douglassb. 1878GBnot in their usual nameEnglish tennis and badminton player (1878–1960)
- John Chambersb. 1923USAmerican make-up artist and prosthetic makeup expert
- Jimmy Cliffb. 1944JMnot in their usual nameJamaican musician (1944–2025)
- Marilyn Chambersb. 1952USAmerican pornographic actress (1952-2009)
- Justin Chambersb. 1970USAmerican actor and former model
- Faune A. Chambersb. 1976USAmerican actress
- Becky Chambersb. 1985USAmerican author
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 95K | #326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 92K | #334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 90K | #305 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 122 | #142 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chambers mean, and where does it come from?
- person employed in a high-ranking person's private chambers Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Chambers?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃeɪmbəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chambers have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 95 thousand people named Chambers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chambers.
- Where is Chambers most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chambers is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 831 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chambers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 94,988 people named Chambers in 2010, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Chambers compared with other names?
- In the United States, Chambers is the 284th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chambersThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chambers” — the 284th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.