# Chesbrough (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/chesbrough/  
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 | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 341 |
| US rank (2010) | 59,324 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 905,412 people |
| Change since 2000 | -6.3% (364 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Chesbro |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, possibly from Old English cis (“gravel”) + burg (“fortress, castle”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Chesbrough 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) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Chesbrough in the United States.

## People named Chesbrough

- Henry Chesbrough, American business theorist

## Similar surnames

Casper, Cogburn, Cosper, Casperson, Cockburn.

## 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.