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The BURKEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,010 7650 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 806 6498 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +3204 -1152 -0.001 -1
Other Countries
Australia 12 77474 0 1
United Kingdom 260 13960 0.001 6
Top States for BURKEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 705 2032 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 639 2464 0.005 52
California 244 10938 0.001 7
Michigan 187 6860 0.002 19
Nebraska 183 1081 0.011 107
Top States for BURKEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 183 1081 0.011 107
Ohio 705 2032 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 639 2464 0.005 52
Iowa 99 4528 0.003 34
Colorado 136 4223 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of BURKEY

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 BURKEY 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 BURKEY 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 BURKEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 71 1.77
Mixed Race 49 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.35
Black/African American 11 0.27
Asian/Pacific 10 0.25
White (Caucasian) 3,855 96.13

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

Meaning of BURKEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURKEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURKEY.

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 BURKEY

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