Burton
Burton was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,418 among boys’ names; 22,534 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,840 Americans named Burton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 48 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Burton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Burton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Burton is “a male given name.”
Usually from Old English burhtun (fortified farmstead, farmstead near or belonging to a stronghold or manor), from burh + tun.
/ˈbɝ.tən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Burton?
#4,418 among boys’ names, 2025
Burton fell from #3,160 in 2015 to #4,418 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 13.5 per million.
597 babies in 1925, the peak
Burton peaked in 1925, when 597 boys were given it, #222 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,095 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,635 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,345 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,589 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,721 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,378 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,119 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,113 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,160 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,509 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,119 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,908 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,928 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,919 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,605 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,903 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,247 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,222 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,739 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,289 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,215 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,221 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,163 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,362 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 54 | #1,516 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 51 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,282 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 91 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 97 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 94 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 102 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 98 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 82 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 79 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 86 | #861 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 87 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 112 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 119 | #748 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 121 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 117 | #720 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 120 | #690 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 129 | #655 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 152 | #604 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 160 | #603 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 163 | #613 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 197 | #562 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 154 | #624 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 182 | #586 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 186 | #571 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 171 | #597 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 158 | #611 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 196 | #551 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 191 | #550 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 183 | #546 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 192 | #524 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 222 | #469 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 217 | #470 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 216 | #461 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 252 | #420 | 0.14 |
| 1949 | 270 | #410 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 246 | #426 | 0.14 |
| 1947 | 293 | #401 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 285 | #388 | 0.18 |
| 1945 | 273 | #359 | 0.20 |
| 1944 | 293 | #349 | 0.21 |
| 1943 | 304 | #350 | 0.21 |
| 1942 | 317 | #342 | 0.23 |
| 1941 | 334 | #322 | 0.27 |
| 1940 | 345 | #301 | 0.30 |
| 1939 | 312 | #314 | 0.28 |
| 1938 | 384 | #282 | 0.35 |
| 1937 | 410 | #269 | 0.38 |
| 1936 | 435 | #256 | 0.42 |
| 1935 | 399 | #273 | 0.38 |
| 1934 | 433 | #260 | 0.42 |
| 1933 | 427 | #253 | 0.43 |
| 1932 | 440 | #257 | 0.42 |
| 1931 | 473 | #243 | 0.45 |
| 1930 | 560 | #227 | 0.51 |
| 1929 | 545 | #231 | 0.51 |
| 1928 | 518 | #243 | 0.47 |
| 1927 | 546 | #241 | 0.48 |
| 1926 | 558 | #237 | 0.50 |
| 1925 | 597 | #222 | 0.53 |
| 1924 | 551 | #245 | 0.49 |
| 1923 | 495 | #252 | 0.45 |
| 1922 | 479 | #257 | 0.44 |
| 1921 | 503 | #249 | 0.46 |
| 1920 | 433 | #264 | 0.41 |
| 1919 | 456 | #248 | 0.47 |
| 1918 | 450 | #251 | 0.44 |
| 1917 | 398 | #252 | 0.43 |
| 1916 | 358 | #266 | 0.40 |
| 1915 | 328 | #268 | 0.39 |
| 1914 | 244 | #285 | 0.37 |
| 1913 | 207 | #266 | 0.40 |
| 1912 | 163 | #280 | 0.38 |
| 1911 | 84 | #288 | 0.37 |
| 1910 | 53 | #345 | 0.27 |
| 1909 | 52 | #318 | 0.32 |
| 1908 | 34 | #405 | 0.22 |
| 1907 | 43 | #324 | 0.29 |
| 1906 | 50 | #282 | 0.38 |
| 1905 | 30 | #385 | 0.23 |
| 1904 | 41 | #307 | 0.32 |
| 1903 | 52 | #253 | 0.44 |
| 1902 | 29 | #368 | 0.24 |
| 1901 | 35 | #296 | 0.33 |
| 1900 | 38 | #354 | 0.25 |
| 1899 | 32 | #311 | 0.30 |
| 1898 | 38 | #307 | 0.31 |
| 1897 | 26 | #369 | 0.23 |
| 1896 | 42 | #283 | 0.35 |
| 1895 | 27 | #360 | 0.23 |
| 1894 | 29 | #332 | 0.25 |
| 1893 | 30 | #318 | 0.27 |
| 1892 | 32 | #331 | 0.26 |
| 1891 | 29 | #311 | 0.29 |
| 1890 | 28 | #328 | 0.25 |
| 1889 | 24 | #360 | 0.22 |
| 1888 | 42 | #278 | 0.35 |
| 1887 | 23 | #340 | 0.23 |
| 1886 | 35 | #288 | 0.32 |
| 1885 | 32 | #300 | 0.30 |
| 1884 | 38 | #278 | 0.33 |
| 1883 | 40 | #261 | 0.38 |
| 1882 | 38 | #278 | 0.33 |
| 1881 | 42 | #238 | 0.42 |
| 1880 | 34 | #283 | 0.31 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Burton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Burton has been given almost only to boys: 48 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Burton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Burton, and how old are they?
6,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 30% of the 22,534 Americans ever recorded as Burton. The median Burton alive today is 64 years old; half are between 48 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 8,663 people named Burton (55 women and girls, 8,608 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,200 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,560 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 784 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 402 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 346 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Burton born?
The states with the most babies named Burton are New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3,003 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 1,396 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,278 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 1,078 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,052 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 784 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Massachusetts | 777 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 712 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 533 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Connecticut | 527 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Burton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Burton is most over-represented in Connecticut: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Burton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Burton
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 Burton and names like it
- Compare Burton and RollandBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBurton peaked in 1925.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Burton since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Burton.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Burton alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.