The BIRCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,745	2807	0.004	44
United States (1880 census)	4,244	1457	0.008	85
Change since 1880	+7501	-1350	-0.004	-41
Other Countries
Australia	2,369	681	0.014	145
United Kingdom	16,006	358	0.035	348

Top States for BIRCH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	862	3594	0.003	25
Florida	726	2912	0.005	45
Pennsylvania	602	2610	0.005	49
New York	596	3338	0.003	31
Illinois	573	2296	0.005	46
Top States for BIRCH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	309	527	0.024	239
Utah	414	733	0.019	185
Delaware	91	1596	0.012	116
Vermont	66	1700	0.011	108
Wyoming	50	1193	0.010	101

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

Classification and Origin of BIRCH

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 BIRCH 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 BIRCH 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 BIRCH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	226	1.92
Mixed Race	191	1.63
Asian/Pacific	72	0.61
Native American/Alaskan	60	0.51
White (Caucasian)	9,974	84.92
Black/African American	1,221	10.4

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

Similar names to BIRCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIRCH.

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.