The history of your name

The BURGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 364 53299 0 1
United States (1880 census) 155 23106 0 3
Change since 1880 +209 -30193 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 17 58422 0 1
United Kingdom 41 26673 0 1
Top States for BURGH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 51 39872 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 49 27010 0.000 4
Connecticut 32 13657 0.001 9
Florida 31 44430 0.000 2
Illinois 24 48215 0.000 2
Top States for BURGH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 9 10722 0.001 14
Connecticut 32 13657 0.001 9
Delaware 4 23720 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 49 27010 0.000 4
Indiana 21 24862 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of BURGH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BURGH surname.

Ethnic distribution of BURGH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 318 87.36
Black/African American 26 7.14
Mixed Race 7 1.92
White (Hispanic) 7 1.92
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

BURGH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BURGH in historical publications

DE BURGH. The Marquis Clanricarde deduces his descent from Charles, 5th son of the Emperor Charlemagne, who was the common ancestor of the counts of Blois, the kings of Jerusalem, the great baronial De Burghs of England, the Burkes of Ireland, and a number of otlier ancient families. The surname is said to have been assumed by John, earl of Comj-n, in the XI. cent.

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 BURGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURGH.

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 BURGH

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