girls:
40 births since 1900
#5676 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1880
#2626 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1880
#5465 (29th percentile)
The name Burley is the #5,465 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,350 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 29.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,626 (42.7% percentile) for all time with 2,310 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,676 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1900.
Burley has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1900 for girls). Birth data for Burley is available in 108 out of the 141 years between 1880 and 2020 (108 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Burley has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Burley reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 9.7% percentile (ranked #497) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 104 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Burley reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #611) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1940.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Burley".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Burley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Burley is pronounced as BER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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