diff --git a/impl/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/ChildSearchKeywordResolver.java b/impl/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/ChildSearchKeywordResolver.java
index ae1309ae97..06b5d5c1a3 100644
--- a/impl/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/ChildSearchKeywordResolver.java
+++ b/impl/src/main/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/ChildSearchKeywordResolver.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
  */
 package org.apache.myfaces.component.search;
 
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import jakarta.faces.FacesException;
@@ -56,17 +55,15 @@ public void resolve(SearchKeywordContext expressionContext, UIComponent current,
             }
 
             int count = 0;
-            List<UIComponent> children = current.getChildren();
-            int n = children.size();
-            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
+            for (int i = 0; i < current.getChildCount(); i++)
             {
-                if (!(children.get(i) instanceof UntargetableComponent))
+                if (!(current.getChildren().get(i) instanceof UntargetableComponent))
                 {
                     count++;
                 }
                 if (count == childNumber + 1)
                 {
-                    expressionContext.invokeContextCallback(children.get(i));
+                    expressionContext.invokeContextCallback(current.getChildren().get(childNumber));
                     break;
                 }
             }
diff --git a/impl/src/test/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/SearchExpressionImplTest.java b/impl/src/test/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/SearchExpressionImplTest.java
index 2ae0fade4c..1befee2cd4 100644
--- a/impl/src/test/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/SearchExpressionImplTest.java
+++ b/impl/src/test/java/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/SearchExpressionImplTest.java
@@ -419,6 +419,30 @@ public void testMyFaces4695() throws Exception
         processRemainingPhases();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Regression test for MYFACES-4764.
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void testMyFaces4764() throws Exception
+    {
+        startViewRequest("/search_myfaces4764.xhtml");
+        processLifecycleExecute();
+        executeBeforeRender();
+        executeBuildViewCycle();
+
+        SearchExpressionHandler handler = facesContext.getApplication().getSearchExpressionHandler();
+
+        UIComponent body = facesContext.getViewRoot().findComponent("body");
+        Assertions.assertNotNull(body, "body component must exist");
+
+        SearchExpressionContext ctx1 = SearchExpressionContext.createSearchExpressionContext(facesContext, body);
+
+        Assertions.assertEquals("first", handler.resolveClientId(ctx1, "@child(1)"),
+                "@child(1) must resolve to 'first'");
+
+        processRemainingPhases();
+    }
+
     /*
     @Test
     public void testCompositeComponentExpression() throws Exception
diff --git a/impl/src/test/resources/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/search_myfaces4764.xhtml b/impl/src/test/resources/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/search_myfaces4764.xhtml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a4c0f79a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/impl/src/test/resources/org/apache/myfaces/component/search/search_myfaces4764.xhtml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+    or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+    distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+    to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+    with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+    software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+    "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+    KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+    specific language governing permissions and limitations
+    under the License.
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
+        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
+      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
+      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
+<h:head>
+</h:head>
+<h:body id="body">
+    separator1
+    <h:outputText id="first"  value="first"/>
+    separator2
+    <h:outputText id="second" value="second"/>
+    separator3
+    <h:outputText id="third"  value="third"/>
+</h:body>
+</html>