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The BURRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 25,998 1242 0.01 96
United States (1880 census) 4,333 1432 0.009 87
Change since 1880 +21665 +190 +0.001 +9
Other Countries
Australia 43 28754 0 3
United Kingdom 217 15680 0 5
Top States for BURRIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,266 571 0.028 282
Texas 2,177 1302 0.010 104
California 1,691 2115 0.005 50
Indiana 1,542 487 0.025 254
Ohio 1,494 993 0.013 132
Top States for BURRIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 425 284 0.054 542
Oklahoma 1,239 403 0.036 359
North Carolina 2,266 571 0.028 282
Arkansas 744 519 0.028 278
Indiana 1,542 487 0.025 254

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

Classification and Origin of BURRIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 491 1.89
Native American/Alaskan 447 1.72
White (Hispanic) 361 1.39
Asian/Pacific 109 0.42
White (Caucasian) 20,060 77.16
Black/African American 4,529 17.42

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

Meaning of BURRIS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURRIS.

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 BURRIS

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