Burnett vs Burnice
American parents have registered 2,926 Burnices since 1880, against 1,843 Burnetts. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Burnett 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 94 years in which either name was published, Burnice for 60 years and Burnett for 34 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1882–1888 Burnett ahead
- 1893–1947 Burnice ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1953–1973 Burnett ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1974–1980 Burnice ahead
- 1981–1994 Burnett ahead
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Burnett | Burnice | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,843 | 2,926 |
| Most in one year | 53 | 105 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 580 | 600 |
| Median age today | 70 | 76 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1925 |
| Best rank | 1,073rd boys | 905th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1882 | 1893 |
| Girls / boys | 282 / 1,561 | 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 Burnetts are over 70. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Burnett South Carolina (13.1×), Texas (3.9×)
- 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: Burnett and Burnice.