About the Chappel Surname

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Chappel, so the heraldry linked to Chappell is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Family name meaning

Records tie Chappel closely to Chappell. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Dweller by a chapel”.

Chappel drops the “l” of Chappell, a simplification that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Chapel and Chapple. Chappel ranked 12,333 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,521 people answering to the name. It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country. French birth records list 258 children named Chappel between 1891 and 2000.

Get the complete Chappel report, with a museum-style coat of arms.