Childress

At the 2020 census, 23,642 Americans bore the surname Childress — 1,469th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,600.

By the numbers

People: 23,642
Rank: 1,469th
How common: 1 in 12,600
Per 100,000: 7.9

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Childress described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.1%
Black, not Hispanic 16.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Childress

Sarah Childress Polk (1803–1891)First Lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849
Josh Childress (born 1983)American basketball player

People named Childress with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Childress

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.