Burgess Surname

3,256th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 173,071 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Bermuda

Burgess Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the burgess,' i.e. the citizen; Middle English burgeys.

Hawise Burgeys, Bedfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Philip Burgers, Oxfordshire, ibid.

John le Burges, Southamptonshire, ibid.

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Burgess Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States96,3621:3,761405
England34,7691:1,603181
Australia16,6811:1,618193
Canada9,0371:4,077541
New Zealand3,7241:1,216117
South Africa1,9791:27,3763,500
Scotland1,9231:2,784517
Wales1,7851:1,734167
Jamaica1,1391:2,520398
Northern Ireland5981:3,085627
Ireland5511:8,5461,182
Belize4401:808174
Bermuda3661:17814
France3461:191,97329,874
Trinidad and Tobago3421:3,988660
Thailand3251:217,34936,465
Saudi Arabia2781:110,99214,774
Spain2751:170,00712,175
Barbados2691:1,069255
Samoa2031:955301
Liberia1551:28,4422,752
Guyana1301:5,8631,014
Germany931:865,65062,206
Netherlands881:191,90026,970
Panama681:57,5332,676
Portugal661:157,8526,835
Sweden531:185,78812,836
Singapore471:117,1854,783
Brazil441:4,865,326126,089
Chile441:400,37410,831
Nigeria441:4,025,972113,480
Denmark421:134,39812,049
Dominican Republic391:267,5119,432
Israel371:231,28721,601
Philippines341:2,977,595140,497
India331:23,244,406321,547
Isle of Man331:2,601535
Norway311:165,88020,092
Qatar311:76,0647,685
Guernsey291:2,222539
Kuwait291:131,05814,967
Malaysia281:1,053,36546,873
Switzerland271:304,18224,091
Zimbabwe271:571,78744,609
Mexico251:4,965,04829,049
Iraq211:1,667,69816,789
Italy211:2,912,22398,106
Belgium201:574,83253,219
Jersey201:4,960981
China181:75,962,3094,162
Afghanistan161:2,009,57414,441
Cyprus141:63,2056,078
Finland141:392,62226,475
Colombia121:3,981,17316,511
Guam121:13,3432,098
Japan121:10,653,69145,407
United States Virgin Islands121:9,1981,357
Argentina101:4,274,341152,056
Greece91:1,231,08885,267
Hong Kong91:815,0543,802
Iceland91:42,2322,922
American Samoa81:6,9701,431
Estonia81:165,22626,217
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines81:14,082855
Monaco71:5,295668
Poland71:5,429,821146,768
Russia71:20,589,008462,339
Antigua and Barbuda61:16,5281,436
Czechia61:1,772,245105,647
Indonesia51:26,449,839597,308
Anguilla41:3,359324
Bahamas41:97,9381,027
Botswana41:546,73222,624
Ecuador41:3,976,46228,589
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
Malawi41:4,279,77724,060
Malta41:107,5681,849
Saint Kitts and Nevis41:13,800846
United Arab Emirates41:2,290,56860,372
Vietnam41:23,161,5143,610
Costa Rica31:1,593,3568,177
Nicaragua31:2,007,0306,490
Puerto Rico31:1,183,3805,289
Sri Lanka31:6,936,18718,422
Taiwan31:7,814,91541,694
Austria21:4,257,71899,224
Bangladesh21:79,678,38625,993
Honduras21:4,408,2217,709
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Laos21:3,294,1621,900
Lebanon21:2,818,54225,087
Nepal21:14,240,47817,812
Oman21:1,843,9869,590
Papua New Guinea21:4,076,858165,791
Slovakia21:2,668,225118,680
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Zambia21:7,924,96145,994
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Bolivia11:10,616,43417,077
British Virgin Islands11:31,5941,029
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Cayman Islands11:63,8932,384
Falkland Islands11:3,132317
Fiji11:894,3914,568
Gambia11:1,923,4511,043
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Grenada11:108,5351,793
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Macau11:601,6301,582
Madagascar11:23,649,8379,420
Mauritius11:1,293,41716,552
Mongolia11:2,825,28917,010
Myanmar11:51,937,9852,166
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
New Caledonia11:276,22310,363
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Rwanda11:11,364,9785,947
Saint Lucia11:178,7813,800
Somalia11:13,452,0619,224
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
Suriname11:552,6169,664
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Turkmenistan11:5,489,11211,427
Turks and Caicos Islands11:34,329862
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland5611:7,8961,208
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England19,1001:1,276154
Scotland1,2801:2,924499
Wales4071:3,854267
Guernsey151:2,177371
Jersey131:3,991684
Isle of Man61:9,045877
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States13,9281:3,606432

Burgess (1,502) may also be a first name.

Burgess Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the burgess,' i.e. the citizen; Middle English burgeys.

Hawise Burgeys, Bedfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Philip Burgers, Oxfordshire, ibid.

John le Burges, Southamptonshire, ibid.

Thomas Burgeys, Norfolk, ibid.

Adam Burgeys, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Johannes Burges, 1379: ibid.

Robert Barges, Norwich, 1519: History of Norfolk.

1614. Married — Edward Burgis and Maud Goorde: St. Antholin (London).

1624. Baptised — Symon, s. Alice Burgis: St. James, Clerkenwell.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

A burgess was a citizen or freeman of a corporate town or burgh, ME. burgeys. Henricus Burgeis in the parish of Fyvy was excommunicated in 1382 (REA., I, p. 165). William Burges was admitted burgess of Aberdeen in 1475 (NSCM., I, p. 25), and Jennet Burgess and John Burgesse were examined for the Test in Tinwald in 1685 (RPC,, 3. ser. XI, p. 433). The old Orkney surname of Burgar has become Burgess.

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(Anglo-French-Teut.) Citizen [Middle English burge(i)s, burgeys, 0. French burgeis, Low Latin burgensis; O.H.Ger. burg, a fortified place] John le Burges.—Hundred Rolls And was thar wonnand in that wik That hight Iosep, a barges rile (And there was dwelling in that town [Capernaum] One called Joseph, a rich burgess).—Cursor Mundi, 12491-2.

Barons and burgeises And bonde-men als [also].— Piers Plowman, 430-1.

The burgess said, 'I will go home,’ 'My menyie [household] are biding each one,’— ‘Hist, of Sir Gray Steel,’ 1873-4: Early Pop. Scot. Poet.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

For this English name Brugha has been adopted as the Irish form. MIF 44

A Guide to Irish Names (1964) by Edward MacLysaght

“Inhabitant of a Borough”. Compare Burger.

South African Surnames (1965) by Eric Rosenthal

(English) A citizen or freeman of a borough who owed special duties to the king and had certain privileges.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

A freeman of a corporate town or borough.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

From berges, burges, a citisen, townsman; a Cornish form of the French bourgeois.

Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock

An inhabitant of a borough; a freeman, citizen; a representative of a borough in parliament.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

From the Dutch, Burges, Burgess; personal name Burges is an old way of spelling Bruges.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Burgess Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Burgess Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Burgess (Marathi: बुरिगस, Russian: Бургесс) occurs most in The United States. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Burgess? popularity and diffusion

The surname Burgess is the 3,256th most frequently occurring surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 42,107 people. The surname Burgess is primarily found in The Americas, where 57 percent of Burgess live; 55 percent live in North America and 55 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 200,630th most numerous forename internationally, borne by 1,502 people.

The surname is most frequently held in The United States, where it is held by 96,362 people, or 1 in 3,761. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: Texas, where 6 percent are found, Georgia, where 6 percent are found and North Carolina, where 6 percent are found. Barring The United States this last name exists in 128 countries. It is also common in England, where 20 percent are found and Australia, where 10 percent are found.

Burgess Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Burgess has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 692 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 182 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 150 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it grew 439 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it fell 2 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Burgess Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is predominantly Anglican (38%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Burgess last name are 11.46% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 58.23% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Burgess earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 31.07% more than the national average, earning 453,617 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 74% more than the national average, earning R 413,484 per year; in Colombia they earn 1.7% less than the national average, earning $22,317,300 COP per year; in United States they earn 3.16% less than the national average, earning $41,784 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.14% more than the national average, earning $51,740 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Burguess93115/
Burghess9313/
Burrgess9310/
Burdgess9310/
Burgesse939/
Burgeess934/
Bourgess933/
Burgesss932/
Buirgess932/
Burgeiss931/
Burgessd931/
Bhurgess931/
Burges922,284/
Buress92293/
Bourgesse8819/
Burress865,960/
Bourges864,615/
Burgues862,260/
Burgiss86160/
Borgess86153/
Burgese86114/
Burgest86107/
Bauress8683/
Burghes8679/
Burdges8663/
Burgeis8652/
Burgees8642/
Vurgess8632/
Buerges8621/
Butress867/
Wurgess865/
Burgges865/
Burcess865/
Bursess864/
Burjess863/
Burgies862/
Bureess862/
Burrges861/
Beuress861/
Bouress861/
Beurges861/
Burhess861/
Burgets860/
Buriess860/
Burtges860/
Buresse860/
Burge8323,178/
Bures833,048/
Burgessová822/
Buttress801,344/
Bourgues80337/
Bourghes80108/
Burchess8053/
Burgeois8025/
Baureiss8025/
Bourgies8021/
Bourgeys8011/
Bourgeis807/
Burgetts806/
Boutrges804/
Boutress802/
Borghess802/
Burgeios802/
Burguese802/
Bourgest802/
Burgesch801/
Buitress801/
Burguest801/
Bouresse801/
Bourress800/
Burggiss800/
Borges77824,095/
Burger77109,400/
Burdge772,508/
Burget772,295/
Buresh772,023/
Burets771,225/
Bourge771,159/
Burgis771,136/
Burres77780/
Baures77661/
Burgee77530/
Burgey77382/
Wurges77327/
Burgie77313/
Boures77152/
Buries77121/
Buirge77106/
Boress7791/
Burces7764/
Butres7744/
Buresz7734/
Buriss7728/
Burjes7726/
Bhures7725/
Bursis7723/
Bhurge7711/
Buires7711/
Beures7711/
Burgge776/
Burghe775/
Burssa775/
Burssi774/
Burese773/
Burnge772/
Vurges772/
Burged772/
Burest772/
Bureis771/
Burgeh771/
Vuress771/
Burssy771/
Burgès771/
Burgés771/
Burejs771/
Bureys771/
Bórges771/
Burgep770/
Burhes770/
Burgys770/
Burses770/
Burees770/
Bureas770/
Bureus770/
Buyres770/
Bourgeois7574,575/
Bourgeais752,184/
Bourgeios75105/
Bourgeoys7531/
Bourgeuis753/
Baurgeois752/
Burgesová752/
Buurgeois751/
Bourghese751/
Bourguest750/
Bourgoiss750/
Bourget719,839/
Burgett716,939/
Burriss712,362/
Boutres711,641/
Buresch711,450/
Burguet711,340/
Burguez711,260/
Bourger71684/
Bourgey71616/
Bourgis71462/
Bourgie71428/
Bouriss71377/
Burzese71364/
Baureis71288/
Burries71215/
Bursese71195/
Burjesh71195/
Bourgea71163/
Burgois71161/
Bouresh71152/
Burches71124/
Borgies71124/
Worgess71108/
Borzges7185/
Bauries7178/
Bourgès7175/
Burguer7162/
Bourgys7158/
Burrese7147/
Boursis7146/
Bursits7145/
Burgier7143/
Burgetz7142/
Bouries7142/
Borress7139/
Bourgez7134/
Boursse7131/
Burssed7131/
Borgges7127/
Bourguetts7123/
Buryesh7122/
Burenge7119/
Burrets7115/
Bureits7114/
Burgeth7112/
Boerges7112/
Boorges7111/
Borgees7110/
Bourets7110/
Bhurgee7110/
Bourgex7110/
Vurgese719/
Burrest719/
Vurgest717/
Butriss717/
Bureish717/
Bourgaisse715/
Burggee715/
Burghez715/
Burghed714/
Borrges714/
Bhurese714/
Buroiss714/
Butreas714/
Burghet714/
Bourses714/
Bourgeeois713/
Bourssa713/
Burgger713/
Buitres713/
Burghis713/
Bouhres713/
Beurger712/
Bhaurge712/
Bureshe712/
Burgget712/
Bourged712/
Borgesz712/
Bourres712/
Bourzes712/
Bourgés712/
Baureus712/
Burysse711/
Burdgee711/
Buresth711/
Burgepp711/
Burgeshova711/
Burgexx711/
Burggis711/
Burjees711/
Burkhes711/
Burseys711/
Buttres711/
Bourdge711/
Borgesh711/
Borjess711/
Baurgea711/
Bhuresh711/
Beurssa711/
Burgist711/
Burghee711/
Burguis711/
Vurgues711/
Wurgues711/
Borcess711/
Burghea711/
Burzhes711/
Bujrgis711/
Bourest711/
Bouresz711/
Bourssi711/
Bourssy711/
Bources711/
Boriess711/
Bhutres711/
Bursais711/
Buresht711/
Bourese711/
Borhges711/
Bourees710/
Bauriss710/
Burrees710/
Burgice710/
Burjest710/
Burssey710/
Burgerr710/
Baurger710/
Burgeer710/
Burioss710/
Burrhes710/
Burshes710/
Bourgee710/
Burreas710/
Bouryes710/
Borge6727,276/
Burga6719,943/
Burce676,924/
Bursa675,657/
Bureš675,590/
Burse675,415/
Bourgois675,381/
Bourguet672,749/
Bores672,735/
Burgi671,983/
Burgy671,934/
Bursi671,836/
Bürge671,609/
Bourgier67753/
Buttriss67482/
Buris67435/
Bursy67430/
Burje67307/
Burys67147/
Bourgais67141/
Buresova6790/
Bureć6789/
Burez6778/
Bureś6763/
Bourzeis6755/
Beurguet6742/
Burgă6738/
Burresch6737/
Burguett6735/
Bourgett6735/
Bourguer6726/
Bourisse6720/
Boursois6720/
Burés6719/
Burgé6718/
Bourgeyx6714/
Bouraiss6713/
Bourguez6712/
Burengge6710/
Bouhriss6710/
Bourssai6710/
Boutreis679/
Boutries679/
Bourgeth679/
Borgheys678/
Buiringe677/
Baureijs676/
Burghuis675/
Boureois674/
Burghuys674/
Bourghis674/
Bouroiss673/
Burex673/
Bouruiss673/
Bourghez673/
Burgueth673/
Vurchess672/
Bhurenge672/
Bourghet672/
Burze672/
Burże672/
Bourghea672/
Buirguis671/
Burdgett671/
Burgehet671/
Burguise671/
Burringe671/
Bourguis671/
Boutrese671/
Borchess671/
Vurge671/
Vurghese671/
Bouyries671/
Wourgiss671/
Burggett671/
Burgoise671/
Burgí671/
Buresová671/
Bursă671/
Burès671/
Boursset671/
Bourcets671/
Boureish671/
D'Bourgeois671/
Bourhiss671/
Bourssce671/
Buttries670/
Burghett670/
Burchest670/
Buttreas670/
Boursies670/
Baurgois670/
Boorhess670/
Burrgett670/
Burggist670/
Burgeher670/
Burgiois670/
Burcheis670/
Baurgais670/
Baurgett670/
Burkheis670/

Burgess Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Burgess in the Marathi language
बुरिगसburigasa-
Burgess in the Russian language
Бургессburgess-

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