Burnice
Burnice was last recorded in 1986, when 5 babies were given it; 2,926 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burnice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Burnice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,084, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
105 babies in 1922, the peak
Burnice peaked in 1922, when 105 babies were given it (64 girls, #917 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #6,855 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,605 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #4,908 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,612 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,000 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,573 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 10 | #3,345 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,194 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,891 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 10 | #2,752 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,602 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,576 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,807 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,084 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,079 | |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,907 | 9 | #2,870 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 10 | #2,732 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 9 | #2,897 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,352 | 9 | #2,847 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,551 | 9 | #2,849 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,961 | 16 | #2,030 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,197 | 14 | #2,173 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,805 | 17 | #1,908 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,716 | 22 | #1,632 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 18 | #1,843 | |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,841 | 15 | #2,015 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,586 | 13 | #2,147 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,673 | 12 | #2,225 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,529 | 28 | #1,386 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,602 | 16 | #1,889 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,271 | 26 | #1,452 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,489 | 22 | #1,515 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,755 | 17 | #1,634 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,812 | 22 | #1,443 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,157 | 17 | #1,779 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,056 | 17 | #1,741 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,506 | 14 | #1,918 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,690 | 20 | #1,525 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,294 | 27 | #1,275 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,480 | 24 | #1,370 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,456 | 23 | #1,409 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,597 | 18 | #1,592 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,554 | 34 | #1,128 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,207 | 28 | #1,273 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,405 | 21 | #1,505 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,194 | 23 | #1,470 |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,105 | 16 | #1,859 |
| 1930 | 48 | #1,062 | 20 | #1,648 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,120 | 29 | #1,314 |
| 1928 | 55 | #1,010 | 30 | #1,326 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,240 | 33 | #1,273 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,185 | 29 | #1,355 |
| 1925 | 67 | #906 | 32 | #1,284 |
| 1924 | 56 | #1,033 | 44 | #1,072 |
| 1923 | 51 | #1,066 | 40 | #1,130 |
| 1922 | 64 | #917 | 41 | #1,111 |
| 1921 | 58 | #971 | 38 | #1,163 |
| 1920 | 60 | #939 | 40 | #1,122 |
| 1919 | 53 | #986 | 33 | #1,235 |
| 1918 | 49 | #1,033 | 36 | #1,156 |
| 1917 | 45 | #1,055 | 29 | #1,270 |
| 1916 | 46 | #1,013 | 41 | #1,000 |
| 1915 | 43 | #1,014 | 32 | #1,143 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,182 | 25 | #1,159 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,095 | 18 | #1,213 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,123 | 18 | #1,101 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,009 | 7 | #1,404 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,217 | 8 | #1,212 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,486 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,366 | 5 | #1,403 |
| 1907 | 20 | #844 | 10 | #877 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,235 | 6 | #1,133 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,555 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,178 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,625 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,140 | 6 | #1,024 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,144 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,173 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,634 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,614 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,627 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,298 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Burnice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,926 Americans recorded as Burnice, 54% are girls and 46% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Burnice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burnice, and how old are they?
An estimated 569 Americans named Burnice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 69 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 596 people named Burnice (248 women and girls, 348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Burnice born?
The states with the most babies named Burnice are North Carolina, Texas and Georgia, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 184 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 131 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 130 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 74 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 50 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arkansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Burnice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Burnice is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Burnice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,979 babies since 1880, Burnice is the most given (98% 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 Burnice
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 Burnice and names like it
- Compare Burnice and BurnieceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBurnice peaked in 1922.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burnice since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Burnice.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Burnice alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.