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The CHILD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,750 6580 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,460 3929 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +3290 -2651 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 638 2529 0.004 39
United Kingdom 3,663 1700 0.008 80
Top States for CHILD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 1,114 231 0.050 499
California 518 6070 0.002 15
Washington 212 3939 0.004 36
Texas 211 9467 0.001 10
Massachusetts 210 4515 0.003 33
Top States for CHILD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 1,114 231 0.050 499
Maine 164 1628 0.013 129
Idaho 129 1562 0.010 100
Vermont 34 3268 0.006 56
New Hampshire 60 3327 0.005 49

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHILD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHILD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHILD in Utah than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHILD by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHILD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHILD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CHILD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CHILD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 195 4.11
White (Hispanic) 169 3.56
Mixed Race 69 1.45
Asian/Pacific 42 0.88
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.48
White (Caucasian) 4,252 89.52

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHILD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CHILD in historical publications

CHILD. The son and heir in noble and royal families. The word was emploved by Spenser, and in the old ballads, as the " Childe of Elle," " Child Waters," &c. See Eng. Surn. i. 214. InDomesd.the epithet Cild or Cilt is applied to several persons of distinction. Le Child. H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CHILD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHILD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CHILD

The following words are slight variants of CHILD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.