The Burget surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 537 people carried this name — #40,672 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted. That is down 22% from 687 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 197 people named Burget.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
43 people named Burget live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Burget,
with a public archive behind them.
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Josef Burget 1884–1963 · violinist
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František Burget 1887–1957
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Vladimír Burget 1910–1982
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Lajos Burget 1932–2007 · journalist
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Jan Burget 1934–1960
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Antonín Burget 1934–
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Burget.
- Burgard 1,533 · U.S. census
- Burgart 200 · U.S. census
- Burge 10,364 · U.S. census
- Burger 19,480 · U.S. census
- Burgermeister 126 · U.S. census
- Burgert 403 · U.S. census
- Burghard 213 · U.S. census
- Burghart 343 · U.S. census
- Burgio 1,021 · U.S. census
- Burgos 25,169 · U.S. census
- Burgstahler 271 · U.S. census
- Burgun 119 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Burget is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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