American Family Name Origins:
Chelette
Frequency: (319)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North American form of French Chelet, which is perhaps a variant of Gillette, or alternatively a variant of Chalet ‘house’, either a topographic name or habitational name from any of the various places called Le Chalet or Les Chalets.
GIVEN NAMES: French 4%. Emile, Honore, Marcelle.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
