Burke
About 4,188 American babies have been named Burke since 1881, most of them around 2013. In 2025 it ranked 2,641st. About 3,200 Burkes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,188
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 1,827th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,641st
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 70 / 4,118
How old the living Burkes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,188 babies given the name since 1881, about 3,200 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 350 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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.
Where Burke is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Burke is most concentrated in Utah (27.9×), Nebraska (16.2×), Minnesota (2.3×), Texas (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Burke peaked:
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Burke 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.