Burks

Burks is the 1,297th most common surname in the United States, shared by 26,569 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,200.

By the numbers

People: 26,569
Rank: 1,297th
How common: 1 in 11,200
Per 100,000: 8.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 49.7%
Black, not Hispanic 41.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Burks

Alec Burks (born 1991)American basketball player
Robert Burks (1909–1968)American cinematographer

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

Surnames like Burks

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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.