Burns

boys:

584 births since 1886

#4002 (13th percentile)

overall:

584 births since 1886

#7155 (8th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Burns".

1886 2016 18862016

Key Statistics

Total Births
584
Peak Births
30
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
4.7%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#201
Current Rank
#920
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Burns

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Burns. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Burns is pronounced as bernz.

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bernz (1 syllable)
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100.0% confidence
B ER1 N Z

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Burns. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Burns, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BER-nihs (2 syllables)
9 names 190.4k births
B ER1 N IH0 S
BER-nuhs (2 syllables)
5 names 3.9k births
B ER1 N AH0 S

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B ER1 N Z) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.