de Burgh Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History

de Burgh Surname

668,257^th

Most Common

surname in the World

Approximately 448 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:

Australia

Highest density in:

Australia

de Burgh Surname Definition:

De Búrca This is one of the most important and most numerous of Hiberno-Norman names. First identified with Connacht it is now numerous in all the provinces (least in Ulster). Many sub-septs of it were formed called MacHugo, MacGibbon, Mac Seoinín (Jennings), MacRedmond (q.

de Burgh Surname Distribution Map

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Australia	244	1:110,638	12,326
England	98	1:568,552	34,674
New Zealand	25	1:181,133	19,287
Ireland	23	1:204,736	8,142
Scotland	18	1:297,434	13,849
United States	17	1:21,321,114	641,998
Canada	9	1:4,093,955	205,175
South Africa	8	1:6,772,213	167,054
Russia	1	1:144,123,056	881,408
Poland	1	1:38,008,749	231,653
Germany	1	1:80,505,459	560,955
France	1	1:66,422,722	504,397
Brazil	1	1:214,074,332	1,693,628
Austria	1	1:8,515,435	118,036

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Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Ireland	31	1:142,899	7,868

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
England	20	1:1,218,768	44,985
Wales	7	1:224,059	8,079

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	1	1:50,218,684	817,899

de Burgh Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? ^{meaning and history}

— A Guide to Irish Names (1964) by Edward MacLysaght

The Marquis Clanricarde deduces his descent from Charles, 5th son of the Emperor Charlemagne, who was the common ancestor of the counts of Blois, the kings of Jerusalem, the great baronial De Burghs of England, the Burkes of Ireland, and a number of other ancient families. The surname is said to have been assumed by John, earl of Comyn, in the XI. cent.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Otherwise Tusard. Hubert de B., the great Earl of Kent t. Henry III., was descended from a family which held Burgh, Causton, &c., in Norfolk, by the service of finding a mounted cross-bow-man for the king’s army for 40 days, and had so held those estates from the time of Henry I. These estates being divided between the family of Tusard and that of De Burgh, it appears that the former was the original Norman name, retained by one branch (See Testa de Neville, 293). William Tusard, t. William I., had issue Robert de Burgh and Gerard Tusard, to whom the above lands seem to have been granted by Henry I. (Testa, 293). The latter was a benefactor to Castle Acre, and left descendants named Tusard. The former’s lands passed to his brother Rainald de B., father of William de B., whose son Rainier was father of Hubert de Burgh, the great Earl of Kent. All these persons are mentioned in Blomefield’s Norfolk. From this house descended the Lords Burgh or Borough of Gainsborough.

— The Norman People (1874)

William Fitz-Adelm or Adeline, t. Henry II., the ancestor of this house, was son of Adelelm, Adeline, Adelm, or Alelm of Aldfield in Yorkshire, younger brother of Eustace Fitz- John, Baron of Alnwick, and son of John Fitz-Ponce, brother of Serlo de Burgh, who was of the house of Fitz-Ponce or De Pons. (See Clifford, Vesci.) Adelm of Aldfield probably bore the name of De Burgh. He with Ralph his son gave lands at Fountains to the Abbey, which gift was confirmed by Roger de Mowbray (Burton, Mon. Ebor. 166). Ralph Fitz-Adeliu held one fee in Yorkshire from Mowbray, 1165 (Lib. Niger), and witnessed a charter of his brother William Fitz-Adeline or Adelm to the Knights Hospitallers (Mon. i. 510); and as Ralph de Burgo, t. Henry II., witnessed a charter of Trentham Priory (Mon. ii. 261). From him descended Sir Alan de Aldfield, who confirmed his gifts to Fountains (Burton, Mon. Ebor. 166). William Fitz- Adelm, the brother of Ralph de Aldfield, appears first in 1152 as witness to a charter of Henry de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract, York, and in 1165 as holding one fee from Lacy of Pontefract (Lib. Niger), and a barony of three fees in Hants and Essex, with the office of marshal to the king, which he had obtained by m. with the dau. of Robert Doisnell (Ibid.). This family adopted the arms borne by the elder line De Vesci, descended from Eustace Fitz-John, viz., a cross. From it descended the Earls of Ulster, Earls and Marquises of Clanricarde, Earls of Mayo, &c.

— The Norman People (1874)

DNA test information

de Burgh Demographics

de Burgh Religious Adherence
in Ireland

Sample size: 31 (1901)

Religious Adherence
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de Burgh Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name de Burgh Come From? ^{nationality or country of origin}

de Burgh occurs in Australia more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name de Burgh? ^{popularity and diffusion}

This last name is the 668,257^th most frequently occurring last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 16,266,844 people. The last name de Burgh occurs mostly in Oceania, where 60 percent of de Burgh live; 60 percent live in Australasia and 60 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.

This surname is most frequent in Australia, where it is borne by 244 people, or 1 in 110,638. In Australia de Burgh is most prevalent in: Western Australia, where 43 percent are found, New South Wales, where 34 percent are found and Queensland, where 9 percent are found. Not including Australia it occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in England, where 22 percent are found and New Zealand, where 6 percent are found.

de Burgh Family Population Trend ^{historical fluctuation}

The frequency of de Burgh has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the de Burgh last name expanded 490 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it fell 26 percent between 1901 and 2014 and in The United States it expanded 1,700 percent between 1880 and 2014.

de Burgh Last Name Statistics ^demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the de Burgh surname is chiefly Anglican (71%) in Ireland.

The amount de Burgh earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 21.67% less than the national average, earning R 186,144 per year and in United States they earn 56.45% less than the national average, earning $18,792 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Surname	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
de Bourgh	94	69	/
der Burgh	94	1	/
de Burg	93	15	/
de Bergh	88	185	/
de Bourg	88	166	/
De-Burgh	88	6	/
de Burhg	88	1	/
der Burg	88	1	/
de Burgt	88	1	/
der Bergh	82	1	/
de Berg	80	331	/
de Borg	80	6	/
De-Burg	80	1	/
de Burk	80	0	/
der Berg	75	17	/
De-Bourg	75	6	/
de Burck	75	5	/
de Burke	75	3	/
de Bergue	71	8	/
de Berk	67	73	/
de Birk	67	64	/
de Berc	67	7	/
de Verg	67	2	/
de Bork	67	1	/
de Boerck	59	1	/
de Verq	53	1	/

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