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

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 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.

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.