Burlingame

Burlingame is the 8,721st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,609 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 82,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,609
Rank: 8,721st
How common: 1 in 82,800
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

A variant of Burlingham, itself from the Old English personal name *Bærla or *Byrla + -ing (“diminutive marker”) + hām (“homestead”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Burlingame

Anson Burlingame (1820–1870)American politician, minister to China, and China's envoy to U.S. and European nations

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

Surnames like Burlingame

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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.