Burt

Burt is the 1,342nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 25,595 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,700.

By the numbers

People: 25,595
Rank: 1,342nd
How common: 1 in 11,700
Per 100,000: 8.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Burt

Cyril Burt (1883–1971)discredited English educational psychologist

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

Surnames like Burt

Also a first name

Burt has been given to 6,555 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. 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.