Find out how popular the last name Burcroff is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Burcroff.

Burcroff, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Burcroff surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Burcroff in America

Burcroff is the 120187th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Burcroff surname appeared 144 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Burcroff.

We can also compare 2010 data for Burcroff to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Burcroff

The surname BURCROFF has its origins in Germany, with records dating back to the 16th century. It is believed to have derived from a combination of the German words "Burg" meaning castle or fortress, and "kroff" which is an old spelling variation of the word "graben" meaning ditch or moat. This suggests that the name may have originally referred to someone who lived near or worked at a castle with a surrounding ditch or moat.

One of the earliest known references to the name BURCROFF can be found in the church records of the town of Augsburg in Bavaria, Germany from the year 1587, where a Hans BURCROFF was listed as a blacksmith. Another early mention is in the municipal records of the city of Nuremberg from 1612, where a Johann BURCROFF is recorded as a miller.

The BURCROFF name appears to have spread from Bavaria to other parts of Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1673, a Wilhelm BURCROFF was listed as a landowner in the village of Gernsheim near Frankfurt. A Katherina BURCROFF, born in 1712, was recorded as a resident of the town of Kassel in central Germany.

One notable bearer of the BURCROFF name was Friedrich BURCROFF, a German philosopher and theologian who lived from 1726 to 1801. He authored several influential works on ethics and moral philosophy during the Age of Enlightenment.

In the 19th century, the name BURCROFF began to appear in records outside of Germany, likely due to emigration. A Peter BURCROFF, born in 1841 in the village of Bächingen in Württemberg, Germany, later settled in the United States and became a farmer in Ohio.

Other notable individuals with the BURCROFF surname include Heinrich BURCROFF (1879-1952), a German-born American architect who designed several notable buildings in Chicago, and Elise BURCROFF (1899-1987), a German-American painter and sculptor who was part of the early 20th century Modernist art movement.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Burcroff

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Burcroff.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Burcroff was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Burcroff has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Burcroff was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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