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    The surname Burston

    An English place surname, carried by 744 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B623

    Burston: #31,184 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Burston #31,184, 744 people Burston: #31,184 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Burston #31,184, 744 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Burston is more common than 80.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Various origins: * The hamlet in Buckinghamshire is named with the Old English personal name *Briddel + þorn (“thornbush”). * The village in Norfolk is named with Old English byrst (“burst, crack in the earth, landslip”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). * The village in Staffordshire is named with an unclear Old English personal name, perhaps Burgwine or Burgwulf, + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Burston 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 744 people named Burston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 414,981 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 654.

    #31,184
    rank among US surnames
    744
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.8%
    change since 2000 (was #33,020)

    Who is named Burston

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

    79% of people named Burston identified as Black (not Hispanic), 17% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 79%
    • White (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Burston

    Burston has the Soundex code B623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B623.

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Burston come from?
    Various origins: * The hamlet in Buckinghamshire is named with the Old English personal name *Briddel + þorn (“thornbush”). * The village in Norfolk is named with Old English byrst (“burst, crack in the earth, landslip”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). * The village in Staffordshire is…
    How common is the surname Burston?
    744 people in the United States had the surname Burston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 414,981 Americans. It ranked 31,184th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Burston?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Burston identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 17% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Burston?
    Burston is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Burston getting more or less common?
    More common. 654 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 744 in 2010, up 14%.