girls:
282 births since 1912
#5434 (5th percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1882
#3100 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1882
#5913 (24th percentile)
The name Burnett is the #5,913 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,843 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 23.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,100 (32.4% percentile) for all time with 1,561 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,434 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 282 births since 1912.
Burnett first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Burnett is available in 83 out of the 113 years between 1882 and 1994 (83 years for boys and 39 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 Burnett has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.7% of all recorded births being male. In 1994, 100.0% of babies named Burnett were boys.
For boys, Burnett reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #497) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 96 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
For girls, Burnett reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #686) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 12 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Burnett".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Burnett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.1% confident that Burnett is pronounced as ber-NEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BER-neht, at 13.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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