The surname Burnam
A surname, carried by 1,759 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B655
Origin
See Burnham.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,759 people named Burnam in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,523 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,732.
#16,370
rank among US surnames
1,759
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+1.6%
change since 2000 (was #15,516)
Who is named Burnam
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
66% of people named Burnam identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 66%
- Black (not Hispanic) 26%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Burnam has the Soundex code B655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B655.
Questions
- Where does the surname Burnam come from?
- See Burnham.
- How common is the surname Burnam?
- 1,759 people in the United States had the surname Burnam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,523 Americans. It ranked 16,370th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Burnam?
- In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Burnam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Burnam getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,732 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,759 in 2010, up 1.6%.