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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

'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.

Meaning of CHILDS in historical publications

Child, Page and Varlet were names given to youths from seven to fourteen years of age, while receiving their education for knighthood.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


CHILDE. CHILDS. See Child.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for CHILDS

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