# Bury (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bury/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,796 |
| US rank (2010) | 11,296 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 110,424 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.9% (2,849 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɛɹi/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

The place name means "fort," from Old English burg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and burgh.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bury in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bury in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

## People named Bury

- John Bagnell Bury, Anglo-Irish historian and classical scholar (1861–1927)
- Priscilla Susan Bury, British botanist and artist (1799–1872)

## Similar surnames

Bray, Burr, Burrow, Baur, Buhr, Brey, Bur, Berry, Bauer, Boyer, Barry, Barr.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.