Burlie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Burlie

The Social Security Administration has registered 139 babies named Burlie between 1906 and 1949, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Burlie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1949. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Burlie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 40 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Burlie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Burlie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Burlie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Burlie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 139 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.