Bury

At the 2020 census, 2,697 Americans bore the surname Bury — 11,213th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 111,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,697
Rank: 11,213th
How common: 1 in 111,000
Per 100,000: 0.90

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

The place name means "fort, " from Old English burg.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Bury

John Bagnell Bury (1861–1927)Anglo-Irish historian and classical scholar
Priscilla Susan Bury (1799–1872)British botanist and artist
Pol Bury (1922–2005)painter, jewelry designer and sculptor from Belgium

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

Surnames like Bury

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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.