Burgess
About 1,089 American babies have been named Burgess since 1884, most of them around 1922. It has not appeared in the national data since 2010. About 400 Burgesses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Burgess
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,089
- Estimated living today
- 400
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 1,396th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Burgesses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,089 babies given the name since 1884, about 400 are alive — 36 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Burgesss
- Burgess Meredith (1907–1997)American actor
- Burgess Jenkins (born 1973)American actor
- Burgess Owens (born 1951)American politician and former football player
People named Burgess with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Burgess is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Burgess peaked:
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Burgess against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.