Charnick: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Charnick and Charnock are two spellings with one history. It is a place-based name: “from Charnock, near Chorley in Lancashire”.

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Charnick and Charnock

Charnick writes “i” in place of the “o” found in Charnock, a common scribal difference. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Chernock.

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