Burl
Burl was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 7,200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Burl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 57 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Burl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,060, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
211 babies in 1921, the peak
Burl peaked in 1921, when 211 boys were given it, #418 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,060 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,653 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,986 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,981 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,958 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,704 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,441 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,234 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,082 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,395 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | #6,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,791 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,617 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,088 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,008 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,477 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,021 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,137 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,140 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 30 | #1,624 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 32 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 36 | #1,396 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,252 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,147 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,198 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,302 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,110 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,096 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,122 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,148 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,078 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 59 | #996 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 65 | #953 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 67 | #928 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 71 | #900 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 80 | #834 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 96 | #744 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 86 | #768 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 90 | #748 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 83 | #770 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 95 | #710 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 99 | #685 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 81 | #765 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 93 | #690 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 106 | #670 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 102 | #635 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 84 | #658 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 86 | #667 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 109 | #605 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 120 | #562 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 100 | #594 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 113 | #556 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 124 | #508 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 110 | #554 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 127 | #512 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 127 | #505 | 0.12 |
| 1935 | 137 | #482 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 120 | #537 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 113 | #536 | 0.11 |
| 1932 | 144 | #478 | 0.14 |
| 1931 | 156 | #449 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 134 | #515 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 135 | #506 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 170 | #467 | 0.15 |
| 1927 | 163 | #474 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 152 | #487 | 0.14 |
| 1925 | 150 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 154 | #500 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 157 | #489 | 0.14 |
| 1922 | 190 | #440 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 211 | #418 | 0.19 |
| 1920 | 174 | #459 | 0.16 |
| 1919 | 130 | #521 | 0.13 |
| 1918 | 140 | #504 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 130 | #504 | 0.14 |
| 1916 | 150 | #464 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 130 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1914 | 92 | #508 | 0.14 |
| 1913 | 86 | #462 | 0.17 |
| 1912 | 66 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 28 | #578 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 37 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1909 | 29 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1908 | 21 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 21 | #513 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 16 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 21 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1904 | 9 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 21 | #452 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 9 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 15 | #510 | 0.14 |
| 1900 | 18 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 13 | #553 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 12 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 15 | #519 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 15 | #538 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 8 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 12 | #598 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 12 | #576 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 16 | #497 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 20 | #389 | 0.20 |
| 1890 | 12 | #570 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 12 | #557 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 20 | #419 | 0.17 |
| 1887 | 19 | #381 | 0.19 |
| 1886 | 21 | #384 | 0.19 |
| 1885 | 17 | #442 | 0.16 |
| 1884 | 9 | #669 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 11 | #560 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 18 | #429 | 0.16 |
| 1881 | 11 | #539 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 14 | #486 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Burl has been given almost only to boys: 19 girls in 123 years of records.
Girls and boys named Burl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burl, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 27% of the 7,200 Americans ever recorded as Burl. The median Burl alive today is 70 years old; half are between 57 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 2,270 people named Burl (25 women and girls, 2,245 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 384 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 934 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 431 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 24 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24 |
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 Burl born?
The states with the most babies named Burl are Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 637 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Oklahoma | 509 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Arkansas | 459 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| West Virginia | 433 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Tennessee | 324 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Kentucky | 301 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Missouri | 285 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 197 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 195 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 162 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Burl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Burl is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 4.2 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 Burl with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,860 babies since 1880, Burl is the most given (92% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Burl
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 Burl and names like it
- Compare Burl and BurrelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBurl peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burl since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Burl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Burl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.