girls:
48 births since 1916
#5668 (1st percentile)
boys:
22.4k births since 1880
#764 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.5k births since 1880
#1693 (78th percentile)
The name Burton is the #1,693 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,492 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #764 (83.3% percentile) for all time with 22,444 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,668 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1916.
Burton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Burton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Burton reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 61.1% percentile (ranked #213) with 518 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 518 births per million (ranked 61.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Burton ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Burton reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #580) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Burton".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Burton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Burton is pronounced as BER-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B ER1 T AH0 N) 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.
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