Burney
Burney was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 888 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Burney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,375, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1930, the peak
Burney peaked in 1930, when 21 boys were given it, #1,607 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #6,375 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,170 | 2.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,863 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,303 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,567 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #2,993 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,803 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,997 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,731 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,601 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 12 | #2,382 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,117 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,313 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,691 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,331 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,123 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,044 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,381 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,195 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,022 | 7.6 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,446 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,609 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,552 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,535 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,684 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,750 | 10.1 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,762 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,825 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,927 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,696 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,142 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,817 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,644 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,160 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,765 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,909 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,969 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,899 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,098 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,812 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,715 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 16 | #1,790 | 15.5 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,504 | 21.2 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,929 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,438 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,607 | 19.1 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,109 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,971 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,311 | 11.5 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,589 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,016 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,901 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,883 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,052 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,915 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 17 | #1,970 | 16.0 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,163 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,832 | 17.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,302 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,862 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,668 | 21.2 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,696 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,453 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,631 | 23.3 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,294 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,235 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,113 | 47.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,112 | 45.3 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,165 | 40.8 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,342 | 33.2 |
| 1897 | 8 | #796 | 70.9 |
| 1892 | 8 | #807 | 65.6 |
| 1888 | 7 | #827 | 57.9 |
| 1885 | 7 | #774 | 64.9 |
| 1882 | 5 | #960 | 44.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Burney has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Burney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burney, and how old are they?
An estimated 268 Americans named Burney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 62 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 372 people named Burney (30 women and girls, 342 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,826 babies since 1880, Burney is the second most given (49% 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 Burney
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 Burney and names like it
- Compare Burney and BurnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBurney peaked in 1930.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burney since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Burney.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Burney alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.