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The surname Burdett

A French surname, carried by 3,868 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B633

Burdett: #8,512 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Burdett #8,512, 3,868 people Burdett: #8,512 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Burdett #8,512, 3,868 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Burdett is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

French origin

An English surname from French derived from the French surnames Burdette, Bourdette, and back to Bourdet.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,868 people named Burdett in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,820 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,740.

#8,512
rank among US surnames
3,868
people in 2010
1.3
per 100,000 Americans
+3.4%
change since 2000 (was #8,160)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,506Aman3,87279,738
#8,509Segarra3,87179,759
#8,511Sainz3,86979,800
#8,512Shedd3,86879,820
#8,517Lepage3,86579,882

Who is named Burdett

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

89% of people named Burdett identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 89%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 5.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Burdett

Burdett has the Soundex code B633, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B633.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Burdett come from?
Burdett is French in origin.
How common is the surname Burdett?
3,868 people in the United States had the surname Burdett in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,820 Americans. It ranked 8,512th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Burdett?
In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Burdett identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Burdett getting more or less common?
More common. 3,740 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,868 in 2010, up 3.4%.