Last Name BURTON

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Meaning	Local: Of Burton. There are at least twenty-tw parishes called Burton in England. Local: A town in Leicestershire, England. The name signifies either the town on the hill, or, as Bailey says, the Bur-town, from the abundance of burs growing thereabouts. There are several places by this name in England.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank	255 (2000 US census)	227 (1990 US census)

Count	107,158 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

69.73%, or 74721 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
26.03%, or 27893 total occurrences, as black,
0.41%, or 439 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.53%, or 568 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.71%, or 1832 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.6%, or 1715 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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