Last Name CHILD

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Meaning	Nickname: The child. Perhaps the eldest son, the heir. It is somewhat hard to fix the sense of Child in nomenclature. It evidently means a page occasionally. In the Morte Arthure mention is made of a youth named 'Chastelayne, a chylde of the Kynges chambyre.'

Origin	English, Polish, Irish

Rank	6,580 (2000 US census)	4,730 (1990 US census)

Count	4,750 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

89.52%, or 4252 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
4.11%, or 195 total occurrences, as black,
0.88%, or 42 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.48%, or 23 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.45%, or 69 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
3.56%, or 169 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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