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The BURRUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,921 7826 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,159 4820 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +2762 -3006 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 9 93235 0 1
United Kingdom 60 25588 0 1
Top States for BURRUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 343 3283 0.004 43
Texas 341 6181 0.002 16
Illinois 332 4210 0.003 27
California 239 11447 0.001 7
Missouri 231 3475 0.004 41
Top States for BURRUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 343 3283 0.004 43
Missouri 231 3475 0.004 41
Kentucky 160 3273 0.004 40
Arkansas 81 4104 0.003 30
Virginia 209 4226 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of BURRUS

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 BURRUS 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 BURRUS 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 BURRUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 89 2.27
White (Hispanic) 65 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.48
Asian/Pacific 16 0.41
White (Caucasian) 2,449 62.46
Black/African American 1,283 32.72

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

Meaning of BURRUS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURRUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURRUS.

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 BURRUS

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