Burch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person who lives in or by a birch wood or by a particular birch tree
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈbɝtʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Burch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 9.2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 473 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
36,269 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)person who lives in or by a birch wood or by a particular birch tree
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Burch counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #824 | 36,269 | 1 in 9.2K | 36K | Burch | 473 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Burch | 187 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Burch | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Burch | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Burch | 123 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,505 | 1 in 5.6K | 1.5K | Burch | 52 |
| IE Ireland | #569 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Burch | 20 |
36,269 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mary Cyrene Breckinridgeb. 1826USnot in their usual namewife of vice-president of the U.S. (1826-1907)
- Thomas G. Burchb. 1869USAmerican politician (1869–1951)
- Noël Burchb. 1932USFrench film critic
- Tory Burchb. 1962USAmerican fashion designer, businesswoman, and philanthropist
- Jesse Burchb. 1970USAmerican actor
- Desiree Burchb. 1979USAmerican comedian, actress, TV host
- Marc Burchb. 1984USAmerican soccer player
- Ashly Burchb. 1990USAmerican voice actress
- Carter BurchUSAmerican actor
- Samy BurchUSAmerican screenwriter, film director and casting director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 36K | #958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 36K | #891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 35K | #994 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.5K | #695 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Burch mean, and where does it come from?
- person who lives in or by a birch wood or by a particular birch tree Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Burch?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɝtʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Burch have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Burch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burch.
- Where is Burch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burch is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 5.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Burch?
- In the United States, the national register counted 36,269 people named Burch in 2010, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Burch compared with other names?
- In the United States, Burch is the 824th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/burchThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Burch” — the 824th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.