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The BURGESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 71,604 407 0.027 265
United States (1880 census) 13,921 416 0.028 278
Change since 1880 +57683 +9 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 8,264 142 0.051 506
United Kingdom 26,617 196 0.058 580
Top States for BURGESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 4,702 388 0.029 294
California 4,246 765 0.013 125
South Carolina 4,217 120 0.105 1,051
North Carolina 4,201 244 0.052 522
Texas 3,787 685 0.018 182
Top States for BURGESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 4,217 120 0.105 1,051
Maine 1,054 193 0.083 827
West Virginia 1,432 147 0.079 792
North Carolina 4,201 244 0.052 522
Tennessee 2,767 309 0.049 486

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

Classification and Origin of BURGESS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 730 1.02
Asian/Pacific 401 0.56
White (Caucasian) 55,686 77.77
Black/African American 12,481 17.43
Mixed Race 1,253 1.75
White (Hispanic) 1,060 1.48

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

Meaning of BURGESS in historical publications

An inhabitant of a borough; a freeman, citizen; a representative of a borough in parliament.

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


Similar names to BURGESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURGESS.

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 BURGESS

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