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The BURKHEAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,456 11701 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 501 9647 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1955 -2054 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 6 132097 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BURKHEAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 461 1295 0.011 114
Tennessee 142 4840 0.002 25
California 134 18375 0.000 4
Illinois 132 10363 0.001 11
Indiana 128 6069 0.002 21
Top States for BURKHEAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 461 1295 0.011 114
Tennessee 142 4840 0.002 25
Iowa 64 7360 0.002 22
Indiana 128 6069 0.002 21
Alaska 13 7652 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of BURKHEAD

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BURKHEAD surname.

Ethnic distribution of BURKHEAD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 100 4.07
Mixed Race 46 1.87
White (Hispanic) 35 1.43
White (Caucasian) 2,259 91.98
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

BURKHEAD is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BURKHEAD in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURKHEAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURKHEAD.

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 BURKHEAD

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