Family name origins & meanings
- French : compound name from Old French chape ‘hooded cloak’, ‘cape’, ‘hat’ + de laine ‘of wool’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such apparel, or as a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive cloak or hat.
- A Chapdelaine from Normandy, France, is documented at Saint-Ours, Quebec, in 1691, with the secondary surname La Rivière, which is thus translated Rivers.