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The CHURCHILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,108 2735 0.004 45
United States (1880 census) 5,160 1179 0.01 103
Change since 1880 +6948 -1556 -0.006 -58
Other Countries
Australia 1,165 1416 0.007 71
United Kingdom 5,059 1240 0.011 110
Top States for CHURCHILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,164 2630 0.003 34
Michigan 789 1343 0.008 79
Massachusetts 673 1296 0.011 106
Florida 659 3024 0.004 41
Illinois 649 1937 0.005 52
Top States for CHURCHILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 429 550 0.034 336
Vermont 201 429 0.033 330
New Hampshire 187 1005 0.015 151
Alaska 75 996 0.012 120
Massachusetts 673 1296 0.011 106

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

Classification and Origin of CHURCHILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 656 5.42
Mixed Race 176 1.45
White (Hispanic) 131 1.08
Native American/Alaskan 104 0.86
Asian/Pacific 64 0.53
White (Caucasian) 10,978 90.67

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

Meaning of CHURCHILL in historical publications

CHURCHILL. Kelham makes Roger de Corcelles, a great Domesd. tenant in the western counties, the ancestor of the Dukes of Marlborough. See Courcelle. Churchill has, however, a sufficientlj' English aspect, and as we find four parishes in different counties so called, we need hardly seelc for a Norman origin.

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 CHURCHILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHURCHILL.

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 CHURCHILL

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