Burnette
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Old French
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Burnette is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 758(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 4.6K
- GYGuyana1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- 1 in 758 (inferred from the name graph)
16,717 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Old French.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Burnette is found
(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 16,717 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Burnette | 370 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Burnette | 61 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Burnette | 38 |
| IN India | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Burnette | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Burnette | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Burnette | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | 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 |
16,717 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; 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)- Dorsey Burnetteb. 1932USAmerican rockabilly musician (1932–1979)
- 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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
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).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Burnette?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Burnette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burnette. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, India and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 United States 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 2026-10-13.