Burnie
Burnie was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 938 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Burnie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,420, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1918, the peak
Burnie peaked in 1918, when 29 babies were given it (24 boys, #1,500 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #7,420 | 2.6 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,749 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,480 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,180 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,017 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,636 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,407 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,366 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,804 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,639 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 10 | #2,689 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,525 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,733 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,898 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,848 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,850 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,031 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,251 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 8 | #2,994 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,979 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,107 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,866 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,685 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,824 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,876 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,126 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,858 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,823 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,143 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,093 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,583 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,051 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,220 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,910 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,636 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,348 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,005 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,593 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,041 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,665 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,227 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,855 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,342 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,800 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,681 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,910 | 15.3 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,127 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,315 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,683 | 18.8 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,784 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,599 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,960 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,514 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,237 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,071 | 15.3 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,500 | 23.7 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,911 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,341 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,798 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,296 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,818 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,074 | 16.3 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,774 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,627 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,483 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,113 | 45.3 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,078 | 46.8 |
| 1896 | 6 | #996 | 50.2 |
| 1895 | 6 | #992 | 51.1 |
| 1894 | 6 | #971 | 51.8 |
| 1890 | 7 | #818 | 63.0 |
| 1888 | 7 | #828 | 57.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 938 Americans recorded as Burnie, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Burnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burnie, and how old are they?
An estimated 265 Americans named Burnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 61 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 354 people named Burnie (48 women and girls, 306 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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, Burnie is the most given (51% 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 Burnie
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 Burnie and names like it
- Compare Burnie and BurneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBurnie peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Burnie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Burnie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.