The BURNS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	162,153	141	0.06	601
United States (1880 census)	51,367	73	0.103	1,027
Change since 1880	+110786	-68	-0.043	-426
Other Countries
Australia	9,583	121	0.059	586
United Kingdom	34,568	134	0.075	753

Top States for BURNS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	11,752	183	0.056	564
California	11,688	232	0.035	345
Florida	8,942	161	0.056	559
New York	8,654	121	0.046	456
Ohio	8,297	94	0.073	731
Top States for BURNS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	796	88	0.102	1,016
Maine	1,250	128	0.098	980
Mississippi	2,543	135	0.089	894
Arkansas	2,348	109	0.088	878
West Virginia	1,540	115	0.085	852

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

Classification and Origin of BURNS

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 BURNS 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 BURNS 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 BURNS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	730	0.45
White (Caucasian)	133,257	82.18
Black/African American	22,101	13.63
Mixed Race	2,351	1.45
White (Hispanic)	2,578	1.59
Native American/Alaskan	1,151	0.71

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

Similar names to BURNS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURNS.

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.