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The BURFORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,872 6430 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,468 3915 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +3404 -2515 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 849 1930 0.005 52
United Kingdom 2,584 2389 0.006 56
Top States for BURFORD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 425 4983 0.002 20
Virginia 389 2365 0.005 55
California 353 7790 0.001 10
Florida 295 6755 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 252 6138 0.002 21
Top States for BURFORD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 210 1283 0.012 116
Virginia 389 2365 0.005 55
Alabama 243 2659 0.005 55
Louisiana 206 2853 0.005 46
Mississippi 128 2759 0.004 45

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

Classification and Origin of BURFORD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BURFORD 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 BURFORD 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 BURFORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 700 14.37
White (Hispanic) 83 1.7
Mixed Race 57 1.17
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.55
Asian/Pacific 19 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,986 81.81

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

Meaning of BURFORD in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BURFORD.

Similar names to BURFORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURFORD.

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 BURFORD

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