About the Burchill Surname

Burchill belongs to the Burchell family of names, which has English roots. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Birch hill”. Burchill writes “i” in place of the “e” found in Burchell, a typical scribal difference. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

The 2010 census count for Burchill in the United States was 527, good for rank 41,303. Burchill sounds close to Birchall, so it can help to search both.

Arms linked to Burchell and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Burchill report, with a museum-style coat of arms.