Burk

Burk is the 2,404th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,779 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,200.

By the numbers

People: 14,779
Rank: 2,404th
How common: 1 in 20,200
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

Variant of Burke.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Burk described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Burk

Bryan Burk (born 1968)American film and television producer
Johan Burk (born 1887)Dutch rower

People named Burk with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Burk

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.