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The BURLISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,955 14122 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 405 11382 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1550 -2740 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 37 32211 0 2
United Kingdom 312 12410 0.001 7
Top States for BURLISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 271 3090 0.005 48
California 170 15474 0.001 5
Missouri 165 4763 0.003 29
Texas 135 13008 0.001 6
Florida 127 14719 0.001 8
Top States for BURLISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 271 3090 0.005 48
Arkansas 102 3458 0.004 38
Missouri 165 4763 0.003 29
Alaska 15 6938 0.002 24
Oklahoma 81 5562 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of BURLISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 67 3.43
Mixed Race 43 2.2
Native American/Alaskan 34 1.74
White (Hispanic) 28 1.43
Asian/Pacific 9 0.46
White (Caucasian) 1,774 90.74

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

Meaning of BURLISON in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURLISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURLISON.

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 BURLISON

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