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Burl vs Burrell

American parents have registered 7,200 Burls since 1880, against 1,475 Burrells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Burl against Burrell, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Burl Burrell

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 124 years in which either name was published, Burl for 121 years and Burrell for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Burl Burrell
Total US births 7,2001,475
Most in one year 21138
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,000400
Median age today 6967
Peak year 19211919
Best rank 418th boys1,122nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 19 / 7,1810 / 1,475

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Burls alive today are over 69; half the Burrells are over 67. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Burl and Burrell.