The origin of the surname is Navarre, Chacon's original house is Tascaon Tascon, an ancient Christian kingdom of medieval Spain.

One of the regions of Spain where it spread over the lineage was in Andalusia, because Don Pedro Chacon, accompanied by King Ferdinand in the campaigns that led to the conquest of Seville where he is rewarded with large tracts of land.

Its meaning is happy and unruly.

  It comes from the French Basque country and Etxacon derives from and means the man upstairs.

Some of the first gentlemen of this surname to arrive in America they were Hernando Chacon, who arrived in America in 1513, Alonso Chacon who came to New Spain in 1538.