Last Name CHRISTIAN

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Meaning	The son of Christian, a familiar North-English font-name, though not wholly confined to the North; generally femenine. Similar names are Christie and Christison. The 'h' throughout all these names is intrusive.

Origin	English, Jewish, French, Irish, Austrian, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank	597 (2000 US census)	564 (1990 US census)

Count	51,177 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

69.69%, or 35665 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
23.45%, or 12001 total occurrences, as black,
1.77%, or 906 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.58%, or 297 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.85%, or 947 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.66%, or 1361 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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