Burnette — unisex name

What the Data Says About Burnette

The Social Security Administration has registered 764 babies named Burnette between 1906 and 1970, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Burnette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1970. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Burnette is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 234 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Burnette performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 164 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Burnette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Burnette in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Burnette 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 764 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.