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Burnice vs Burnie

American parents have registered 2,926 Burnices since 1880, against 938 Burnies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Burnice against Burnie, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Burnice Burnie

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 90 years in which either name was published, Burnice for 74 years and Burnie for 16 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Burnice Burnie
Total US births 2,926938
Most in one year 10529
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 600270
Median age today 7670
Peak year 19251916
Best rank 905th girls1,335th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18931888
Girls / boys 1,593 / 1,33362 / 876

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 Burnies are over 70. That is 6 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: Burnice and Burnie.