boys:
1.5k births since 1881
#3174 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1881
#6270 (19th percentile)
The name Burrell is the #6,270 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,475 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 19.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,174 (30.8% percentile) for all time with 1,475 births since 1881.
Burrell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for boys in 1881). Birth data for Burrell is available in 96 out of the 121 years between 1881 and 2001. 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, Burrell reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #502) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 87 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Burrell".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Burrell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.9% confident that Burrell is pronounced as BER-uhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ber-EHL, at 20.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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