Burnham
15,147 people in the United States were counted with the surname Burnham in the 2020 census, making it the 2,343rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,700.
By the numbers
- People
- 15,147
- Rank
- 2,343rd
- How common
- 1 in 19,700
- Per 100,000
- 5.1
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English burna (“stream”) + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Burnham described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Burnham
- Andy Burnham (born 1970)Leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2026
- Bo Burnham (born 1990)American comedian
- Daniel Burnham (1846–1912)American architect and urban designer
- Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838–1921)American astronomer
- Frederick Russell Burnham (1861–1947)father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil man; writer; rancher
- James Burnham (1905–1987)American philosopher
- Kevin Burnham (1956–2020)American sailor
- Robert Burnham, Jr. (1931–1993)American astronomer
People named Burnham with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Burnham
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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.