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The BURR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,839 2253 0.006 55
United States (1880 census) 6,290 970 0.013 126
Change since 1880 +8549 -1283 -0.007 -71
Other Countries
Australia 856 1913 0.005 52
United Kingdom 3,321 1876 0.007 72
Top States for BURR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,163 2635 0.003 34
Florida 840 2381 0.005 53
New York 806 2242 0.004 42
Michigan 782 1360 0.008 79
Texas 773 2913 0.004 37
Top States for BURR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 468 577 0.021 210
Connecticut 515 719 0.015 151
Maine 171 1403 0.013 134
South Carolina 457 1419 0.011 114
Nebraska 185 971 0.011 108

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

Classification and Origin of BURR

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 BURR 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 BURR 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 BURR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 239 1.61
White (Hispanic) 212 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 174 1.17
Asian/Pacific 73 0.49
White (Caucasian) 13,073 88.1
Black/African American 1,068 7.2

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

Meaning of BURR in historical publications

(origin: Saxon.) Burh, a wall, a fortress, a castle; a hill, a heap, the same as burgh.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BURR. Said to be of Dutch extraction.

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 BURR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURR.

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 BURR

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