Burr

Burr is a masculine given name which may refer to the following people:
Burr Baldwin (1922-2007), American college and professional football player
Burr Caswell (1807–1896), American frontiersman
Burr Chamberlain (1877–1933), American college football player and head coach
Burr DeBenning (1936–2003), American character actor
Burr H. Duval (1809–1836), the commander of the Kentucky Mustangs, a volunteer unit which fought in the Texas Revolution
Burr Harrison (1904-1973), American politician
Burr W. Jones (1846–1935), American politician, jurist and lawyer
Burr McIntosh (1862–1942), American lecturer, photographer, film studio owner, silent film actor, author, publisher of Burr McIntosh Monthly, reporter and a pioneer in the early film and radio business
Burr Plato (c. 1844-1905), escaped African-American slave and Canadian politician
Burr Shafer (1899–1965), American cartoonist
Burr Steers (born 1965), American actor, screenwriter and director, nephew of writer Gore Vidal
Burr Tillstrom (1917-1985), American puppeteer, creator and sole puppeteer of the television show Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Burr Williams (1909–1981), American National Hockey League player

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"rough sound of the letter -r-" (especially that common in Northumberland), 1760, later extended to "northern accented speech" in general. Possibly the sound of the word is imitative of the speech peculiarity itself, or it was adapted from one of the senses of bur (q.v.), perhaps from the phrase to have a bur in (one's) throat (late 14c.), which was a figure of speech for "feel a choking sensation, huskiness." OED says the Scottish -r- is a lingual trill, not a true burr.

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Old English origin, means: bristle. Derivation from Old English bur: small dwelling or building. Variant spelling of Bur, topographic name from Burr(e): mound, hill.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Aaron Burr	1756	American Vice President and politician
2	Bill Burr	1968	American actor and comedian
3	Raymond Burr	1917	Actor
4	Richard Burr	1955	Sales executive, Senator from North Carolina
5	Tanya Burr	1989	British make-up artist and YouTube personality
6	Clive Burr	1957	British drummer
7	Isabel Burr	1988	Mexican actress
8	Burr Steers	1965	American actor, writer, film director
9	Lonnie Burr	1943	American actor, singer and dancer
10	Esther Edwards Burr	1732	American writer
11	Claudia Burr	1969
12	Ty Burr	1957	American film critic
13	Gary Burr		American music producer and songwriter
14	Burr DeBenning	1936	American actor
15	Wally Burr	1924	Voice director and voice actor
16	Burr Redding
17	Burr Tillstrom	1917	American puppeteer
18	Rick Burr	1964	Australian general
19	Steve Burr	1963	Scottish footballer and manager
20	Shawn Burr	1966	Canadian ice hockey player
21	George Lincoln Burr	1857	American historian
22	Jeff Burr	1963	American film director
23	John (Jean) Pierre Burr	1792	American activist
24	Aaron Columbus Burr	1808	Adopted and/or natural son of Aaron Burr
25	Harold Saxton Burr	1889	American medical researcher
26	Chandler Burr	1963	American scientist
27	Ryan Burr	1972	American sports journalist
28	Lachlan Burr	1992	Australian rugby league player
29	Justin Burr	1985
30	Fritzi Burr	1924
31	Seymour Burr		American slave
32	Burr Caswell	1807	Businessman
33	Burr McIntosh	1862	American photographer, actor and publisher
34	Ed Burr	1956	American businessman
35	Don Burr	1941	American businessman
36	Elmer J. Burr	1908	United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
37	Theodore Burr	1771	American civil engineer
38	George Elbert Burr	1859	American printmaker and painter
39	Burr Harrison	1904	American politician
40	David H. Burr	1803	American cartographer, surveyor and topographer
41	John Burr	1831	British artist
42	Burr Chamberlain	1877	American football player and coach
43	Bettina Burr
44	Stefan Burr	1940	American mathematician
45	Herbert H. Burr	1920	United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
46	Ronald T. Burr	1964	American businessman
47	Ephraim Willard Burr	1809	American mayor
48	Dan Burr	1951
49	Burr Baldwin	1922	American football player
50	Craig Burr	1945	American venture capitalist
51	Albert G. Burr	1829	American politician
52	Burr W. Jones	1846	American politician
53	Burr H. Duval	1809	American commander
54	Burr Shafer	1899	American cartoonist
55	James Burr	1971	British writer
56	William Hubert Burr	1851	American engineer
57	Amelia Josephine Burr	1878	American writer
58	Francis Burr		American football player
59	Thomas Burr	1813	Australian explorer
60	Jon Burr	1953	American musician
61	Frank W. Burr	1906	Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey from 1970-74
62	Charles Chauncey Burr	1817	American journalist
63	Wolfgang Burr	1966	German economist
64	Burr Davis	1937
65	Max Burr	1939	Australian politician
66	Daniel Higford Davall Burr	1811	Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Berkshire
67	Anne-Margaretta Burr	1817	Watercolor painter
68	Burr H. Nicholls	1848	American painter
69	Burr Plato	1844	Canadian politician
70	Conrad Burr	1968	Racecar driver
71	Tom Burr	1893	American baseball player
72	Enoch Fitch Burr	1818	American astronomer
73	Burr Van Nostrand
74	Viktor Burr	1906	German librarian
75	Charles E. Burr	1934	American jockey
76	Eunice Dennie Burr
77	Frederick Burr	1887	English cricketer
78	Jannette Burr	1927	American alpine skier
79	Burr Williams	1909	American ice hockey player
80	David C. Burr
81	Henry Burr	1872	Sport shooter
82	Leonhard Burr	1913	German radio operator and Knight's Cross recipients
83	Dieter Burr	1957	German tax advisor
84	Benjamin Burr	1818
85	Burr Churchill Miller
86	Alexander Burr	1871
87	Edward Burr	1859
88	Fred Burr	1911	Canadian politician
89	David Judson Burr	1820
90	Robert N. Burr	1916
91	Malcolm Burr	1878	English professor, translator, and entomologist
92	Burr Folks	1915	American canoeist
93	Burr Sprague	1836	American politician
94	Ho Burr	1992	Hongkonger bicycle racer
95	Howard Courtney Burr	1890	American theatrical producer
96	George Burr
97	Hamilton Burr
98	George Washington Burr