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The COCKBURN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 877 26215 0 3
United States (1880 census) 258 15972 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +619 -10243 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 729 2222 0.004 45
United Kingdom 3,949 1579 0.009 86
Top States for COCKBURN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 88 18251 0.000 4
California 68 35171 0.000 2
New York 63 31354 0.000 3
Georgia 57 10937 0.001 7
Washington 51 15116 0.001 9
Top States for COCKBURN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 20 7716 0.002 16
Iowa 37 13079 0.001 13
Oregon 40 11630 0.001 12
Washington DC 6 8885 0.001 10
Vermont 6 12835 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of COCKBURN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 736 83.92
Black/African American 93 10.6
White (Hispanic) 29 3.31
Mixed Race 10 1.14
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of COCKBURN in historical publications

(origin: Local) The brook by the hillock; from cock, a hillock, and burn, a brook.

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


COCKBURN. Probably from either Cockburnlaw, co. Berwick, or from Cockburnspath in the same county. Tliere is a mountain in Berwickshire wliich is so called.

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 COCKBURN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COCKBURN.

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 COCKBURN

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