as a Last Name
- 11,837
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Churchill
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places named Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic element crūg ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’.
| 2,613th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,837
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Churchill per capita
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