The BURNSIDE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,470	3854	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	1,837	3222	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+6633	-632	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	288	5410	0.002	18
United Kingdom	1,832	3175	0.004	40

Top States for BURNSIDE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	718	2062	0.006	63
Florida	545	3998	0.003	34
California	535	5682	0.002	16
Texas	509	4473	0.002	24
Mississippi	431	1099	0.015	152
Top States for BURNSIDE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	308	946	0.017	170
Mississippi	431	1099	0.015	152
South Carolina	427	1627	0.011	106
Idaho	127	1504	0.010	98
Utah	165	1932	0.007	74

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

Classification and Origin of BURNSIDE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	171	2.02
Mixed Race	120	1.42
White (Hispanic)	97	1.15
Asian/Pacific	33	0.39
White (Caucasian)	6,119	72.24
Black/African American	1,930	22.79

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

Similar names to BURNSIDE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURNSIDE.

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.