Last Name CHILDS

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

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, South african

Rank	1,178 (2000 US census)	1,033 (1990 US census)

Count	27,266 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

65.14%, or 17761 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
30.72%, or 8376 total occurrences, as black,
0.4%, or 109 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.94%, or 256 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.53%, or 417 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.27%, or 346 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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