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The BURNAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,732 15516 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 628 8039 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1104 -7477 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32156 0 0
Top States for BURNAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 245 9094 0.001 12
Georgia 190 5102 0.002 23
Florida 164 13357 0.001 10
California 138 20918 0.000 4
Missouri 134 6646 0.002 24
Top States for BURNAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 134 6646 0.002 24
Georgia 190 5102 0.002 23
Oklahoma 69 7184 0.002 20
Kentucky 72 6566 0.002 18
Idaho 17 11903 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of BURNAM

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

Ethnic distribution of BURNAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 414 23.9
Mixed Race 50 2.89
White (Hispanic) 35 2.02
Native American/Alaskan 30 1.73
Asian/Pacific 12 0.69
White (Caucasian) 1,191 68.76

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

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

Meaning of BURNAM in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURNAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURNAM.

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 BURNAM

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