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The BURROWS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,972 1946 0.006 63
United States (1880 census) 4,678 1336 0.009 94
Change since 1880 +12294 -610 -0.003 -31
Other Countries
Australia 3,127 491 0.019 191
United Kingdom 17,591 317 0.038 383
Top States for BURROWS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,452 2229 0.004 43
Florida 1,219 1722 0.008 76
New York 1,113 1673 0.006 59
Texas 1,062 2286 0.005 51
Pennsylvania 864 1748 0.007 70
Top States for BURROWS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 405 747 0.018 181
New Hampshire 202 983 0.016 163
Montana 110 984 0.012 122
Oklahoma 398 1215 0.012 115
West Virginia 207 1302 0.011 114

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

Classification and Origin of BURROWS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 243 1.43
White (Hispanic) 243 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 141 0.83
Asian/Pacific 100 0.59
White (Caucasian) 14,757 86.95
Black/African American 1,488 8.77

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

Meaning of BURROWS in historical publications

BURROWS. See Burgh.

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 BURROWS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURROWS.

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 BURROWS

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