Chaplin (name)

Last updated September 12, 2025

Chaplin is a surname with multiple etymologies. Surnames of English and French origin are derived from the occupational name for a clergyman, while the Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian surname is derived from chaplya, meaning 'heron' or 'stork'.^[1] The surname Chaplin may refer to:

People named Chaplin

Alice Chaplin (1848–1921), English artist
Ben Chaplin (born: Benedict Greenwood 1970), English actor
Blondie Chaplin (born 1951), South African musician
Carmen Chaplin (born 1972), actress, granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, various including:
- Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977), English comedy film actor - silent and "talkie" - and director
  - Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925–1968), American actor, son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin (artist) (1907–1987), English artist, engraver and printmaker
- Charles Chaplin (elder) (1759–1816), British Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire 1802–1816
- Charles Chaplin (younger) (1786–1859), British Member of Parliament for Stamford 1809–1812, and for Lincolnshire 1818–1831
- Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825–1891), French painter
- Charlie Chaplin (singer), Jamaican dancehall and ragga singer
Christopher Chaplin (born 1962), actor, son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Conor Chaplin (born 1997), English footballer
Dmitry Chaplin (born 1982), Russian-born International Latin dancer
Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944), American actress, daughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840–1923), British politician
John Chaplin (coach) (born 1937), athletics coach at Washington State University
John Worthy Chaplin (1840–1920), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
Josephine Chaplin (born 1949), actress, daughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Judith Chaplin (1939–1993), British politician
Kate Chaplin (1865–1948), violinist, who with her sisters Nellie Chaplin (1857–1930), pianist, and Mabel Chaplin (1870–1960), cellist, formed the Chaplin Trio
Kiera Chaplin (born 1982), actress and model, granddaughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Michael Chaplin (actor) (born 1946), actor, son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Nikita Chaplin (born 1982), Russian politician
Oona Chaplin (born 1986), actress, granddaughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Ralph Chaplin (1887–1961), American labor activist
Saul Chaplin (1912–1997), American composer and musical director
Shelley Chaplin (born 1984), Australian wheelchair basketball player
Sid Chaplin (1916–1986), British writer
Sydney Chaplin (born: Sidney John Hill 1885–1965), elder half-brother of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Sydney Chaplin (American actor) (1926–2009), American cinema and theatre actor, second son of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Tom Chaplin (born 1979), lead singer of the English piano rock band, Keane
Victoria Chaplin (born 1951), actress, daughter of comedian Charlie Chaplin
Vsevolod Chaplin (1968–2020), Russian Orthodox Church spokesman
William Chaplin (coach proprietor) (1787–1859), English transport entrepreneur and Member of Parliament for Salisbury (1847–1857)
William Robert Chaplin, Warden of Trinity House

References

↑ Ancestry.com Chaplin family history

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[1] Ancestry.com Chaplin family history

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