The BURNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,653	3762	0.003	32
United States (1880 census)	1,794	3295	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+6859	-467	-0.001	-4
Other Countries
Australia	129	11335	0.001	8
United Kingdom	598	7801	0.001	13

Top States for BURNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,092	2085	0.007	68
Texas	835	3058	0.004	40
Georgia	761	1545	0.009	93
North Carolina	704	1856	0.009	87
California	476	6488	0.001	14
Top States for BURNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	296	1543	0.010	104
Alabama	419	1840	0.009	94
Georgia	761	1545	0.009	93
North Carolina	704	1856	0.009	87
Florida	1,092	2085	0.007	68

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BURNEY

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 BURNEY 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 BURNEY 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 BURNEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	176	2.03
Asian/Pacific	128	1.48
White (Hispanic)	100	1.16
Native American/Alaskan	52	0.6
White (Caucasian)	4,252	49.14
Black/African American	3,945	45.59

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

Similar names to BURNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURNEY.

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.