Burr

14,993 people in the United States were counted with the surname Burr in the 2020 census, making it the 2,376th most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,900.

By the numbers

People: 14,993
Rank: 2,376th
How common: 1 in 19,900
Per 100,000: 5.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.1%
Black, not Hispanic 7.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Burr

Aaron Burr (1756–1836)vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived
Raymond Burr (1917–1993)Canadian actor
Bill Burr (born 1968)American comedian, actor, and writer
Richard Burr (born 1955)United States Senator from North Carolina from 2005 to 2023
Clive Burr (1957–2013)English drummer

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

Surnames like Burr

Also a first name

Burr has been given to 803 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1916. 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.