Childs

At the 2020 census, 27,853 Americans bore the surname Childs — 1,241st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,700.

By the numbers

People: 27,853
Rank: 1,241st
How common: 1 in 10,700
Per 100,000: 9.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.2%
Black, not Hispanic 29.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Childs

David Childs (1941–2025)American architect
Lucinda Childs (born 1940)American choreographer and dancer

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

Surnames like Childs

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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.