Burgè
surname · Latin script
Burgè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset,. variant of Bridge . William atte Brugge lived at Burge End (Herts), 1302 in Place-Names of Herts p. 21.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 32K
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)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
10,364 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Burge in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more and Bürge in CH Switzerland.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset,. variant of Bridge . William atte Brugge lived at Burge End (Herts), 1302 in Place-Names of Herts p. 21. This metathesis of r in Old English brycg ‘bridge’ has also been noted in Bucks, Cambridge, Northants, Notts, Oxford, Somerset, Wilts and Warwicks. See Place-Names of Northants p. xxxii.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burgè 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 | 10,364 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Burge | 384 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Burge | 170 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Burge | 134 |
| IN India | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Burge | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,029 | 1 in 8.2K | 1K | Bürge | 23 |
| IE Ireland | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Burge | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Burge | 37 |
10,364 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Burgè mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset,. variant of Bridge . William atte Brugge lived at Burge End (Herts), 1302 in Place-Names of Herts p. 21. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Burgè have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Burgè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burge.
- Where is Burgè most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burgè is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Burgè?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,364 people named Burgè in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
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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, “Burgè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.