Burnell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Burnell

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,790 babies named Burnell between 1906 and 2022, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Burnell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 67 babies received it in a single year. Burnell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 593 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Burnell performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 562 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Burnell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 354 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Burnell in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Burnell 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 2,790 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.