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The BURNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,800 8049 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,151 4843 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +2649 -3206 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 549 2946 0.003 34
United Kingdom 2,306 2612 0.005 50
Top States for BURNELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 312 862 0.024 245
New York 287 7068 0.002 15
California 274 9967 0.001 8
Florida 233 8492 0.001 15
Michigan 194 6618 0.002 20
Top States for BURNELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 312 862 0.024 245
New Hampshire 93 2151 0.008 75
Alaska 30 3079 0.005 48
Vermont 29 3498 0.005 48
Iowa 81 5713 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of BURNELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 534 14.05
Mixed Race 59 1.55
White (Hispanic) 53 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.71
Asian/Pacific 15 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,112 81.89

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

Meaning of BURNELL in historical publications

BURNELL. The etymon Is uncertain, unless it be a diminutive of Brun. The famil}', who gave the suffix to Acton Burnell, CO. Salop, are found in England so early as 1087. Dugdale.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BURNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURNELL.

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 BURNELL

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