as a Last Name
- 2,653
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Bury
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Bury in Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester), or from some other similarly named place. The place name comes from the dative case, byrig, of Old English burh ‘fortified place’. Compare Burke, originally used after a preposition (e.g. Richard atte Bery).
| 10,392nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,653
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Bury per capita
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