Burley vs Burnice
American parents have registered 2,926 Burnices since 1880, against 2,350 Burleys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Burley Burnice
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 112 years in which either name was published, Burley for 63 years and Burnice for 49 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.
- 1880–1901 Burley ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1905–1951 Burnice ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1956–2020 Burley ahead, apart from 3 short spells
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Burley | Burnice | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,350 | 2,926 |
| Most in one year | 64 | 105 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 660 | 600 |
| Median age today | 68 | 76 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1925 |
| Best rank | 920th boys | 905th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1893 |
| Girls / boys | 40 / 2,310 | 1,593 / 1,333 |
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 Burnices alive today are over 76; half the Burleys are over 68. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Burley Kentucky (15.8×), West Virginia (11.0×), Arkansas (9.0×)
- Burnice North Carolina (9.7×), Mississippi (8.8×), Georgia (7.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Burley and Burnice.