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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

'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.

Meaning of BIRCH in historical publications

(origin: Local) A name probably given from residing at or near a birch-tree. "John at the birch," etc.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BIRCH. Parishes and chapelries in cos. Essex, Hereford, and Lancaster.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BIRCH

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