The CHILDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,266	1178	0.01	101
United States (1880 census)	7,943	755	0.016	159
Change since 1880	+19323	-423	-0.006	-58
Other Countries
Australia	1,413	1156	0.009	86
United Kingdom	7,962	775	0.017	173

Top States for CHILDS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,092	1255	0.010	100
Georgia	1,824	604	0.022	223
California	1,759	1902	0.005	52
Florida	1,616	1330	0.010	101
Michigan	1,473	718	0.015	148
Top States for CHILDS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	678	404	0.030	304
Washington DC	147	412	0.026	257
Maine	312	852	0.024	245
South Carolina	923	726	0.023	230
Georgia	1,824	604	0.022	223

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

Classification and Origin of CHILDS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHILDS 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 CHILDS 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 CHILDS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	417	1.53
White (Hispanic)	346	1.27
Native American/Alaskan	256	0.94
Asian/Pacific	109	0.4
White (Caucasian)	17,761	65.14
Black/African American	8,376	30.72

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

Similar names to CHILDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHILDS.

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.