Burnett — boys' name

What the Data Says About Burnett

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,561 babies named Burnett between 1882 and 1994, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Burnett currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Burnett is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 282 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Burnett performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 333 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Burnett shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Burnett in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Burnett 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 1,561 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.