Burdette
Burdette was last recorded in 1979, when 6 babies were given it; 1,841 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burdette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Burdette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,440, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1920, the peak
Burdette peaked in 1920, when 76 babies were given it (65 boys, #836 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | #5,440 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,611 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,708 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,888 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,476 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,599 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,017 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 16 | #1,990 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,072 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #4,110 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,867 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,075 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,700 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,312 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,380 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,609 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,376 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 8 | #2,992 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,327 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,841 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,534 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,781 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,749 | 10.1 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,826 | 9.6 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,460 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,603 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,956 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,781 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,335 | 18.3 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,310 | 19.6 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,684 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,301 | 21.2 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,634 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,298 | 23.5 |
| 1938 | 43 | #966 | 38.8 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,238 | 27.2 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,184 | 29.9 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,100 | 33.6 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,271 | 27.1 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,053 | 38.3 |
| 1932 | 46 | #966 | 44.1 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,066 | 38.5 |
| 1930 | 45 | #1,022 | 41.0 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,219 | 30.7 |
| 1928 | 50 | #963 | 45.1 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,352 | 26.6 |
| 1926 | 45 | #1,035 | 40.5 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,023 | 40.3 |
| 1924 | 50 | #996 | 44.1 |
| 1923 | 57 | #905 | 52.0 |
| 1922 | 74 | #769 | 68.0 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,030 | 41.8 |
| 1920 | 65 | #836 | 61.1 |
| 1919 | 66 | #801 | 67.3 |
| 1918 | 68 | #789 | 67.1 |
| 1917 | 54 | #865 | 58.3 |
| 1916 | 52 | #877 | 58.4 |
| 1915 | 41 | #981 | 48.3 |
| 1914 | 33 | #969 | 50.4 |
| 1913 | 27 | #952 | 52.7 |
| 1912 | 27 | #860 | 62.8 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,301 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,329 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,032 | 54.9 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,029 | 51.8 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,013 | 52.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,164 | 40.8 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,070 | 47.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,068 | 47.1 |
| 1885 | 5 | #955 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burdette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,841 Americans recorded as Burdette, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Burdette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burdette, and how old are they?
An estimated 326 Americans named Burdette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 542 people named Burdette (95 women and girls, 447 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Burdette born?
The states with the most babies named Burdette are Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa and Nebraska are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 198 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Illinois | 104 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Nebraska | 77 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Ohio | 77 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Dakota | 15 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Burdette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Burdette is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 5.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Burdette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Burdette
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Burdette and names like it
- Compare Burdette and VerlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBurdette peaked in 1920.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burdette since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Burdette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Burdette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.