# Chalker (surname)

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

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,749 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,444 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 176,527 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.9% (1,717 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From an agent derivative of Old English geċealcian (“to whiten”), an occupational surname for a whitewasher, or a topographic surname for someone who lived on chalky ground.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Chalker 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) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Chalker in the United States.

## People named Chalker

- Jack L. Chalker, American author (1944-2005)

## Similar surnames

Clouser, Colegrove, Cleghorn, Colgrove, Caligiuri, Colcord.

## 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.