Burnice — unisex name

What the Data Says About Burnice

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,593 babies named Burnice between 1893 and 1964, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Burnice currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1964. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 67 babies received it in a single year. Burnice is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,333 additional births since 1902.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Burnice performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 536 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Burnice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 116 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Burnice in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Burnice 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 1,593 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.