Burr
Burr was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 803 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Burr?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,710, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1916, the peak
Burr peaked in 1916, when 23 boys were given it, #1,462 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #5,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,993 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,585 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,066 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 5 | #4,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,554 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,453 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,631 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,144 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,694 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,309 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,900 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,007 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,316 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,144 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,771 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,415 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,502 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,069 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,941 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,284 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,052 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,983 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,500 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,230 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,405 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,295 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,231 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,183 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 11 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 6 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 9 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 9 | #761 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 10 | #607 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 11 | #590 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 7 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 9 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 6 | #855 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 8 | #709 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 11 | #576 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 7 | #732 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 9 | #660 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 11 | #576 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Burr has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Burr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burr, and how old are they?
An estimated 164 Americans named Burr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 63 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 271 people named Burr (3 women and girls, 268 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Burr
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 Burr and names like it
- Compare Burr and WinfieldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBurr peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burr since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Burr.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Burr alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.