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childers Name Meaning and History

English: probably a habitational name from some lost place named Childerhouse, from Old English cildra, genitive plural of cild ‘child’ + hus ‘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).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of childers Families in the US in 1920
Number of childers families
 170-338
 57-169		 1-56
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