# Chaney vs Chauncey

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Chaney
*name · frequency rank #31,911*
A surname from Anglo-Norman.

### Chauncey
*name · frequency rank #38,780*
An American surname from Old French, of Norman origin from a place name in France.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chaney-vs-chauncey