Churchill

At the 2020 census, 11,791 Americans bore the surname Churchill — 2,987th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,300.

By the numbers

People: 11,791
Rank: 2,987th
How common: 1 in 25,300
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Churchill

Winston Churchill (1874–1965)British statesman, soldier and writer
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722)English soldier and statesman
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660–1744)British duchess
Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895)British politician, father of Winston Churchill
Clementine Churchill (1885–1977)Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer
Jack Churchill (1906–1996)British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword
Randolph Churchill (1911–1968)British politician, son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Caryl Churchill (born 1938)British dramatist

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

Surnames like Churchill

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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.