as a Last Name
- 29,061
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Childers
Meaning & Origins
English: probably a habitational name from some lost place named Childerhouse, from Old English cildra, genitive plural of cild ‘child’ + hūs ‘house’. This may have referred to some form of orphanage perhaps run by a religious order, or perhaps the first element is to be understood in its later sense as a term of status (see Child).
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Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 29,061
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Childers per capita
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