Burnie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Burnie

The Social Security Administration has registered 876 babies named Burnie between 1888 and 1988, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Burnie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1988. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Burnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 62 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Burnie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 185 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Burnie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Burnie in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Burnie 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 876 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.