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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.