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The BOURKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,434 11788 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 691 7438 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +1743 -4350 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 6,054 223 0.037 370
United Kingdom 1,862 3146 0.004 41
Top States for BOURKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 269 9268 0.001 8
New York 214 8466 0.001 11
Illinois 187 6547 0.002 15
Florida 184 9558 0.001 12
Massachusetts 146 5330 0.002 23
Top States for BOURKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 12 5408 0.002 24
Massachusetts 146 5330 0.002 23
Montana 19 7162 0.002 21
Nebraska 32 8059 0.002 19
New Hampshire 23 6374 0.002 19

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BOURKE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BOURKE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BOURKE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BOURKE by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BOURKE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BOURKE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BOURKE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BOURKE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 58 2.38
Native American/Alaskan 38 1.56
White (Hispanic) 37 1.52
Asian/Pacific 33 1.36
Mixed Race 29 1.19
White (Caucasian) 2,239 91.99

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BOURKE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BOURKE in historical publications

BOURKE. The same as Burke.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BOURKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOURKE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BOURKE

The following words are slight variants of BOURKE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.