Burnette
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Old French
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɝˈnɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Burnette is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 20K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K
- CACanada≈1 in 29K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- 1 in 758 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Old French.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burnette 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Burnette | 5 |
| US United States | 16,717 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Burnette | 370 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Burnette | 61 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Burnette | 38 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Burnette | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Burnette | 15 |
| GY Guyana | 128 | 1 in 5.9K | 128 | — | 5 |
| DM Dominica | 98 | 1 in 758 | 98 | — | 2 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 22 | 1 in 4.6K | 22 | — | 4 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
- Henlee Hulix Barnetteb. 1911USnot in their usual nameAmerican professor of Christian ethics
- Wally Burnetteb. 1929USAmerican baseball player (1929-2003)
- Dorsey Burnetteb. 1932USAmerican rockabilly musician (1932–1979)
- Johnny Burnetteb. 1934USAmerican musician (1934–1964)
- Billy Burnetteb. 1953USAmerican musician
- Rocky Burnetteb. 1953USAmerican musician (b. 1953)
- Kurt Burnetteb. 1955USAmerican Byzantine Catholic bishop
- Reggie Burnetteb. 1968USAmerican football player
- Olivia Burnetteb. 1977USAmerican actress
- Justin Burnetteb. 1980USAmerican actor
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,234 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 128 | #497 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 98 | #135 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 22 | #240 |
| 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 Burnette mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Old French. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Burnette?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɝˈnɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Burnette have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 181 thousand people named Burnette in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burnette.
- Where is Burnette most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burnette is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 758 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Burnette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,717 people named Burnette in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Burnette?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/burnetteThe 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, “Burnette”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.