girls:
593 births since 1912
#5123 (10th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1906
#2384 (48th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1906
#4700 (39th percentile)
The name Burnell is the #4,700 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,383 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 39.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,384 (48.0% percentile) for all time with 2,790 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #5,123 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 593 births since 1912.
Burnell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Burnell is available in 102 out of the 117 years between 1906 and 2022 (102 years for boys and 48 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 Burnell has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Burnell were boys.
For boys, Burnell reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #473) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 61 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Burnell reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #604) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 22 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Burnell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Burnell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.9% confident that Burnell is pronounced as ber-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BER-nehl, at 21.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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