Burnis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Burnis

The Social Security Administration has registered 842 babies named Burnis between 1912 and 1986, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Burnis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1986. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Burnis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 90 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Burnis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 172 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Burnis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Burnis in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Burnis 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 842 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.