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The BURRELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 23,048 1414 0.009 85
United States (1880 census) 3,804 1613 0.008 76
Change since 1880 +19244 +199 +0.001 +9
Other Countries
Australia 1,010 1635 0.006 62
United Kingdom 5,029 1250 0.011 110
Top States for BURRELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,666 1549 0.008 80
North Carolina 1,310 950 0.016 163
California 1,298 2534 0.004 38
Georgia 1,291 877 0.016 158
Michigan 1,162 934 0.012 117
Top States for BURRELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,156 587 0.029 288
Mississippi 638 719 0.022 224
Alabama 972 807 0.022 219
Louisiana 903 752 0.020 202
Virginia 1,154 789 0.016 163

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

Classification and Origin of BURRELL

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 BURRELL 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 BURRELL 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 BURRELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 484 2.1
White (Hispanic) 468 2.03
Native American/Alaskan 127 0.55
Asian/Pacific 71 0.31
White (Caucasian) 11,321 49.12
Black/African American 10,577 45.89

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

Meaning of BURRELL in historical publications

Borel is used by Chaucer in the sense of lay, as borel-clerks--lay-clerks. It may be a corruption of Borrail (which see).

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


BURRELL. Plain, rude, unpolished.

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 BURRELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURRELL.

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 BURRELL

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