The Burleson surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 13,176 people carried this name — #2,734 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 22,400 people counted. That is up 4% from 12,637 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Burleson surname

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a local name, from where the family lived: ‘of Burleston’.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 149 · public domain.

In print

Burleson in American newspapers,
1918–1919.

Newspaper page from Daily Kennebec Journal carrying the name Burleson
Daily Kennebec Journal 1918-05-27
Newspaper page from Great Falls Daily Tribune carrying the name Burleson
Great Falls Daily Tribune 1919-03-23
Newspaper page from The Producers News carrying the name Burleson
The Producers News 1919-01-03

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Burleson in Australian newspapers,
1910s–1960s.

178 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Burleson. The most, 136, date from the 1910s. Queensland has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 1.7 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 53
New South Wales 46
Western Australia 25
Victoria 24
South Australia 15
Tasmania 10
ACT (Canberra) 4

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Burleson.

Who carried it

People named Burleson,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Edward Burleson
    Edward Burleson 1798–1851 · vice president
  • Edward Burleson
    Edward Burleson 1798–1851 · vice president
  • Rufus Columbus Burleson
    Rufus Columbus Burleson 1823–1901 · chancellor
  • Albert Sidney Burleson
    Albert Sidney Burleson 1863–1937 · lawyer
  • Jane Walker Burleson
    Jane Walker Burleson 1888–1957 · suffragette
  • Curtis Burleson d. 2009

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Burleson,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States637 records

637 records of the Burleson name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 450
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 138
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 18
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 10
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 8
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 4
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Boyce H. Burleson

    Born 1917 in North Carolina. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Bragg; office clerk from Stanly County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Robertson Family Ce, Etery, Virginia.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Clarence Paul Burleson

    Born 1948; from Fairfield, California. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1969 in Kontum, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Robert Burleson

    Arrived at New York in 1883 aboard the Somerset from Bristol, aged 40; laborer. From England.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 637 records for Burleson in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Canada2 records

2 records of the Burleson name in Canada Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver
  1. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Ira Burleson

    Died 1974; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

    City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver.
  2. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Sidney Burleson

    Died 1966; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

    City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver.

Counts: City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Burleson name in the Netherlands Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths)
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Ewald Ferdinand Burleson

    Died 1964 in Rotterdam, aged 33.

    Open Archives, Stadsarchief Rotterdam (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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