# Chidsey (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/chidsey/  
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) | 335 |
| US rank (2010) | 60,196 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 921,628 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.6% (333 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Chedzoy in Somerset, from the Old English personal name Cedd + -s- + īeġ (“island”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Chidsey 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) | 97% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

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

## 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.