Surname statistics for Burr

There are approximately 5,955 people named Burr in the UK. That makes it the 1,757th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 94 are named Burr.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)59551757N/A94
United Kingdom (1881 census)240718610.00880
Change since 1881+3548+104+0.001+14
Other Countries
United States148392253N/A55
Australia8561913N/A52

Politics

People with the surname Burr are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Liberal Democrat.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Burr are:

  1. Liberal Democrat (2)
  2. Conservative (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Burr
Andrew Burr
James Burr
Robert Burr
Martin Burr
Christopher Burr
Michael Burr
Simon Burr
John Burr
Paul Burr
Richard Burr
Adrian Burr
Stephen Burr
Thomas Burr
Philip Burr
Anthony Burr
Mark Burr
Graham Burr
Ian Burr
Jonathan Burr

Top female forenames

Lesley Burr
Patricia Burr
Jane Burr
Louise Burr
Elizabeth Burr
Susan Burr
Nicola Burr
Margaret Burr
Sally Burr
Sandra Burr
Deborah Burr
Janet Burr
Lindsay Burr
Lisa Burr
Sheila Burr
Karen Burr
Helen Burr
Samantha Burr
Avril Burr
Katie Burr

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.