Burden is used as a family name or surname in Scandinavian. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Burden
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Scandinavian
Meaning: From one of the local names ending in den. Den means a plain, vale, dale or valley. It can also be a corruption of Burdon, a township, co. Durham. Or a coruption of bourdon, a pilgrim's staff - a very appropriate sign for a wayside hostelry. It may also be from Bour, a house from the Saxon bure, a bed-chamber and den, a valley collectively meaning the house in the valley.

How popular is Burden?

Burden is common in United States.

Burden is ranked 19659 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Burden bearers increased by 5.927311 per cent in 2010 US census to 13028 since 2000, the surname slipped by 76 spots and ranked at 2770. The last name was found in around 44 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 66.55 69.48
Black 27.82 26.55
Hispanic or Latino 2.39 1.39
Others 2.26 1.43
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.58 0.76
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.4 0.39
Burden is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Isle of Man is ahead in terms of density. Around 26482 people have been found who wears Burden as their family name. Burden is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
1,632 South Korea5
812 Monaco5
103,755 Czech Republic5
1,219,338 India3
5,726 Puerto Rico2
31,767 Greece2
723,167 Indonesia2
993 Guernsey2
15,999 Slovakia2
6,900 Oman2
1,777 Jersey2
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
134,667 Zimbabwe1
168 Wallis and Futuna1
123,175 Tanzania1
53,033 Nigeria1
7,191 Afghanistan1
7,292 Vietnam1
29,046 Japan1
17,575 Kuwait1
3,307 Malta1
2,505 Congo1
24,771 Colombia1
4,249 Cambodia1
24,176 Qatar1
10,190 Bahrain1
11,486 Estonia1
28,365 Kenya1
1,179 Swaziland1
81,201 Switzerland1
9,591 Panama1
153,416 Italy1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
52,947 Netherlands31
9,620 Singapore30
58,436 Spain30
9,692 Ireland27
282,307 Russia27
514 Isle of Man27
23,443 Norway26
4,647 Thailand21
186,451 Ukraine16
29,040 Denmark15
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
92,589 Brazil79
57,588 Argentina75
14,205 Sweden65
3,881 Hong Kong59
17,601 United Arab Emirates54
Countries with hundreds of Burden:
2,062 Scotland348
34,535 Philippines322
2,524 New Zealand298
38,477 Germany269
2,148 Namibia163
61,459 France159
2,488 Wales158
1,763 Northern Ireland143
Countries with thousands of Burden:
1,491 England5,302
3,310 South Africa1,954
2,693 Canada1,817
2,836 Australia1,090
Countries with ten thousands of Burden:
2,914 United States13,823
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, 24 years old James Burden who was residing in Newry, Ireland migrated to New-York on April 23, 1846 by Brothers put out from Newry. 21 years old Samuel Burden, John Burden (33) Workman, 34 years old Damaris Burden, Peter Burden, Born at sea Sarah Burden, George Burden, William Burden, aged 22, 26 years old Stephen Burden, and 17 other Burden around 42.86% of whom were workman while others worked as farmer and servant migrated to US from Liverpool, London and Glasgow.

Burden Namesakes

  • Amanda Burden, City planner
  • Nikolay Burdenko, Surgeon
  • Thomas Burden, 1st Baron Burden, Politician
  • Amanda Burden, City planner
  • Richard Burden, British Politician
  • Hugh Burden, Actor
  • Matthew Currier Burden, Author
  • Deonte Burden, Taurean Ferguson's father
  • Dieter Burdenski, Soccer player
  • William Burden, Singer

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