Burke
Burke was given to 49 boys in 2025, #2,649 among boys’ names; 4,188 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,200 Americans named Burke and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 13 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burke by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Burke?
#2,649 among boys’ names, 2025
Burke fell from #2,279 in 2015 to #2,649 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 28.7 per million.
79 babies in 2014, the peak
Burke peaked in 2014, when 79 babies were given it (72 boys, #1,980 among boys’ names). The 49 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #2,649 | 28.7 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,224 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 53 | #2,514 | 31.0 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,591 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,063 | 40.6 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,116 | 38.2 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,087 | 38.5 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,394 | 30.3 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,571 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,281 | 30.6 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,279 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,980 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 78 | #1,830 | 41.2 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,106 | 33.7 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,949 | 37.4 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,121 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,234 | 29.7 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,089 | 32.4 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,142 | 30.4 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,105 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,774 | 37.0 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,422 | 23.2 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,935 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 55 | #1,997 | 28.3 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,982 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 55 | #1,893 | 28.0 |
| 1999 | 50 | #1,933 | 26.0 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,235 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,455 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,928 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,877 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,690 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,789 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,115 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #2,999 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,784 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,542 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,609 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,118 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,925 | 16.8 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,233 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,844 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,400 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,519 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,143 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,736 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,906 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,439 | 25.6 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,710 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 41 | #1,391 | 26.1 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,508 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,249 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,273 | 26.9 |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,061 | 35.8 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,166 | 27.7 |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,032 | 33.4 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,065 | 29.6 |
| 1968 | 58 | #959 | 33.4 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,166 | 23.5 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,216 | 21.3 |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,032 | 27.4 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,001 | 28.6 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,051 | 25.6 |
| 1962 | 23 | #1,673 | 11.1 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,693 | 10.8 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,433 | 14.5 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,627 | 11.2 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,320 | 16.0 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,234 | 18.5 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,385 | 14.7 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,339 | 15.5 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,203 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,716 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,406 | 14.9 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,346 | 15.9 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,823 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,509 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,490 | 13.7 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,451 | 14.2 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,043 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,412 | 16.3 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,581 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,260 | 21.0 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,385 | 18.1 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,417 | 18.7 |
| 1940 | 13 | #1,993 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,458 | 19.0 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,445 | 19.8 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,699 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,736 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,455 | 21.1 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,509 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,335 | 25.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,722 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,703 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,897 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,620 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,388 | 25.3 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,877 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,475 | 22.5 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,540 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,358 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,760 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,225 | 32.2 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,482 | 23.6 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,388 | 26.3 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,577 | 22.4 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,547 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,820 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,557 | 23.6 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,611 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,555 | 24.4 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,452 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,186 | 37.2 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,626 | 25.7 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,182 | 39.9 |
| 1884 | 6 | #867 | 52.4 |
| 1881 | 6 | #798 | 59.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burke a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,188 Americans recorded as Burke, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 49 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Burke: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burke, and how old are they?
3,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 4,188 Americans ever recorded as Burke. The median Burke alive today is 26 years old; half are between 13 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 3,118 people named Burke (140 women and girls, 2,978 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,023 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 75 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 388 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 621 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 385 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 923 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 808 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Burke born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #829 | 0.3× |
Where Burke is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Burke is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Burke 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 Burke
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 Burke and names like it
- Compare Burke and JoachimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBurke peaked in 2014.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burke since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Burke.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Burke alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.