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churchill Name Meaning and History

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 crug ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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churchill Family Facts

Distribution of churchill Families in the US in 1920
Number of churchill families
 175-347
 59-174		 1-58
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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