Last Name CHURCH

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: At the church, from residence beside the church porch or gate. Local: A house of Christian worship, derived from the old English 'chirch,' and Scottish 'Kirk,' Latin 'circus,' and this from the Gaelic 'cearcal,' a temple, a round building. The root of 'Church' is from the Gaelic 'car,' roundness, from which we have 'cirke' or 'kirke.'

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, South african, Hungarian

Rank	890 (2000 US census)	763 (1990 US census)

Count	35,539 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.86%, or 32291 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
5.22%, or 1855 total occurrences, as black,
0.37%, or 131 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.7%, or 249 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.41%, or 501 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.44%, or 512 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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