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    The surname Birchall

    An English place surname, carried by 607 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B624

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Birchall is more common than 77.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Probably a habitational surname from Old English birċe (“birch”) + hyll (“hill”).

    Birchall is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 607 people named Birchall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 585.

    #36,788
    rank among US surnames
    607
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #36,189)

    Who is named Birchall

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Birchall identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Burchall
    • Burchill

    Surnames that sound like Birchall

    Birchall has the Soundex code B624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B624.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Birchall come from?
    Probably a habitational surname from Old English birċe (“birch”) + hyll (“hill”).
    How common is the surname Birchall?
    607 people in the United States had the surname Birchall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. It ranked 36,788th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Birchall?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Birchall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Birchall?
    Birchall is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Birchall getting more or less common?
    More common. 585 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 607 in 2010, up 3.8%.
    What are other spellings of Birchall?
    Burchall and Burchill.