Burnette

At the 2020 census, 15,862 Americans bore the surname Burnette — 2,234th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,800.

By the numbers

People: 15,862
Rank: 2,234th
How common: 1 in 18,800
Per 100,000: 5.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.4%
Black, not Hispanic 18.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Burnette

Johnny Burnette (1934–1964)American musician
Smiley Burnette (1911–1967)American country music performer and comedic actor
Olivia Burnette (born 1977)American actress

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

Surnames like Burnette

Also a first name

Burnette has been given to 998 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 1923. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.