# Chadwick (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/chadwick/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 16,415 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,222 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 18,809 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.2% (15,913 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈt͡ʃædwɪk/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Chaddock, Shaddock, Shadduck, Shadix, Shadwick, Shattock, Shattuck |

## Etymology

Derived from Old English Ċeadda (“Chad”) + Old Norse vík.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Chadwick in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Chadwick in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Chadwick

- George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer (1854–1931)
- Helene Chadwick, actress (1897-1940)
- Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (1918-1995)
- Justin Chadwick, British actor and director
- Edgar Chadwick, association football player from England (1869–1942)
- Stephen F. Chadwick, American politician (1825-1895)
- Henry Chadwick, American baseball writer and statistician (1824–1908)
- Cyril Chadwick, actor (1879-1955)
- Henry Chadwick, British academic and Anglican priest (1920–2008)
- Whitney Chadwick, American art historian and educator
- Michael Chadwick, American swimmer
- Georgia Byng, British children's writer

## Similar surnames

Coates, Cates, Coats, Chaidez, Coots, Cutts, Cadiz, Cutshaw, Coutts, Cadieux, Couts, Chittick.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.