Last Name BURRILL

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Meaning	Nickname: The borel, originally a term for a kind of coarse cloth. Afterwards used adjectively for a comely man, a peasant, a countryman. Borel was also used as a personal name. Another meaning is local, 'of Burrel,' a township in the parish of Bedale, North Rid. Yorks.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	15,217 (2000 US census)	12,089 (1990 US census)

Count	1,775 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.46%, or 1659 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.93%, or 52 total occurrences, as black,
0.62%, or 11 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.51%, or 9 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.41%, or 25 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.07%, or 19 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

English surnames

English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...