boys:
584 births since 1886
#4002 (13th percentile)
overall:
584 births since 1886
#7155 (8th percentile)
The name Burns is the #7,155 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 584 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,002 (12.7% percentile) for all time with 584 births since 1886.
Burns first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for boys in 1886). Birth data for Burns is available in 54 out of the 131 years between 1886 and 2016. 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.
For boys, Burns reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #510) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Burns".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Burns is pronounced as bernz, which has 1 syllables.
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