Popularity of the last name by country
United Kingdom
- London (19,870)
- Kent (15,254)
- Norfolk (14,135)
- Essex (10,764)
- Oxfordshire (10,495)
- Wiltshire (6,332)
- Berkshire (6,019)
- Cambridgeshire (5,997)
- Gloucestershire (5,734)
- Lancashire (4,408)
- Suffolk (4,376)
- Bedfordshire (3,827)
- Hampshire (3,555)
- Surrey (3,479)
- Buckinghamshire (2,937)
- Northamptonshire (2,615)
- Herefordshire and Worcester (2,470)
- Somerset (1,907)
- Hertfordshire (1,730)
- Leicestershire (1,627)
- Warwickshire (1,623)
- North Yorkshire (1,545)
- Avon (1,519)
- Cheshire (1,517)
- County Durham (1,385)
- Cleveland (1,276)
- Strathclyde (1,263)
- Shropshire (1,228)
- Lothian (1,021)
- Staffordshire (935)
- Devon (931)
- Lincolnshire (895)
- Cumbria (808)
- West Yorkshire (806)
- Derbyshire (721)
- Cornwall (699)
- East Sussex (682)
- Dorset (637)
- Northumberland (595)
- Nottinghamshire (588)
- Gwent (499)
- Merseyside (468)
- Antrim (467)
- Grampian (451)
- Londonderry (420)
- West Sussex (278)
- South Yorkshire (263)
- West Midlands (259)
- Tayside (242)
- West Glamorgan (233)
- Tyne and Wear (218)
- Jersey (189)
- Dumfries and Galloway (186)
- South Glamorgan (146)
- Armagh (133)
- Highlands (120)
- Humberside (120)
- Dyfed (100)
- Fifeshire (88)
- Guernsey (68)
All countries
- United States (687,757)
- United Kingdom (175,604)
- New Zealand (56,865)
- Canada (31,049)
- Australia (27,826)
- Unknown country (20,274)
- France (8,971)
- Ireland (7,241)
- Germany (4,585)
- Italy (2,707)
- India (1,678)
- Colombia (1,523)
- Switzerland (1,277)
- Netherlands (1,255)
- China (1,228)
- Poland (1,215)
- Lebanon (1,058)
- Mexico (892)
- Israel (703)
- Spain (619)
- Belgium (601)
- Greece (495)
- Russian Federation (480)
- Peru (452)
- Jamaica (444)
- Macedonia, the former Yugoslav republic of (347)
- Cuba (313)
- Sweden (300)
- Brazil (278)
- Egypt (265)
- Portugal (263)
- Austria (239)
- Denmark (233)
- Turkey (226)
- Korea, Republic of (223)
- Czech republic (188)
- Argentina (179)
- Norway (175)
- Palestine (163)
- Algeria (135)
Origine of last name
CHURCH : 1: English: topographic name mostly found in southern and midland England for someone who lived near a church or possibly an occupational name for someone who worked at a church such as a verger or sexton from Middle English chirche ‘church’. The word comes from Old English cyrice ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon for earlier kyriakōn (dōma) ‘(house) of the Lord’ from kyrios ‘lord’. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kirk">Kirk</a>.2: Americanized form (translation into English) of German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kirch">Kirch</a>.
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