# Chittick (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 672 |
| US rank (2010) | 33,856 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 459,443 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.9% (685 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Nickname from a diminutive of Middle English chitte (“cub, whelp”), probably used as a term of endearment.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Chittick 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Similar surnames

Coates, Cates, Chadwick, Coats, Chaidez, 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.