Last Name BURLEIGH

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Meaning	Local: Of Burleigh or Burley, the spellings being interchangeable. Places (including parishes, chapelries, liberties, and tithings) occur in counties Rutland, Hants, West Ridding Yorks, and Chester. Local: 'Burh,' Saxon, is the same as burg, a city, castle, house, or tower; in composition, it signifies defense; 'leigh,' a low place, opposed to a place higher, the same as 'ley,' a meadow, a pasture. 'Burly,' swelled, bulky, boisterous.

Origin	English, Irish, Anglo-saxon, Assyrian

Rank	10,046 (2000 US census)	7,917 (1990 US census)

Count	2,959 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

86.92%, or 2572 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.17%, or 301 total occurrences, as black,
0.17%, or 5 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.17%, or 5 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.25%, or 37 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.32%, or 39 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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