Chuck (first name)
Chuck is a male given name common in the English (American) language area.
origin
The name is a variant of the given name Charles . The variant was originally formed as a nickname. Charles goes back to the old French Charles or Carles and the Latin Carolus to old high German karal ("man, husband, beloved", from which new high German Karl ), which in turn derives from ancient German * karlaz ("free man; small, young man; old man", a diminutive to * karaz "man") is to be derived. Even with the Old Germanic and Old High German word, one can assume a pet form that led from “my little man” to “dear husband”.
Variations
The diminutive pet form Chucky is famous due to a horror film of the same name from the 1970s.
Name bearer
- Chuck Andrus (1928–1997), American jazz bassist
- Chuck Arnold (1926–1997), American racing car driver
- Chuck Austin (1927–2012), American jazz trumpeter
- Chuck Bednarik (1925-2015) American football player
- Chuck Berg (≈1940–2016), American jazz musician, author and university professor
- Chuck Berry (1926-2017), American rock musician
- Chuck Close (* 1940), American photo artist
- Chuck Comer (* 1934), American rock'n'roll and country musician
- Chuck Connors (musician) (1930–1994), American jazz trombonist
- Chuck Daly (1930–2009), American basketball coach
- Chuck Deardorf (* 1954), American jazz musician
- Chuck Dixon (* 1954), American comic book author
- Chuck Gentry (1911–1988), American jazz musician
- Chuck Hagel (born 1946), American politician
- Chuck Hedges (1932-2010), American jazz clarinetist
- Chuck Jones (1912–2002), American cartoonist
- Chuck Mangione (* 1940), American flugelhorn player
- Chuck McKinley (1941–1986), American tennis player
- Chuck Metcalf (1931–2012), American jazz musician
- Chuck Noll (1932-2014) American football player and coach
- Chuck Norris (born 1940), American actor
- Chuck Owen (* ≈1955), American jazz musician, orchestra conductor, arranger, composer and university professor
- Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), American author
- Chuck Schuldiner (1967–2001), American singer and guitarist
- Chuck Schumer (* 1950), American politician
- Chuck Stentz (1926–2018), American jazz musician
- Chuck Taylor (1901–1969), American basketball legend
- Chuck Wayne (1923–1997), American jazz guitarist
- Chuck Yeager (* 1923), American aviator veteran
Individual evidence
- ↑ fellow. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).