Burl
Burl reached its high-water mark in 1921 at number 418, and has been recorded 7,200 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 2,000 Burls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Burl boys named Burl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,200
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 69
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 418th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 19 / 7,181
How old the living Burls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,200 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,000 are alive — 28 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 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 Burls
- Burl Ives (1909–1995)American musician
People named Burl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Burl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Burl is most concentrated in West Virginia (11.5×), Arkansas (10.5×), Oklahoma (9.2×), Kentucky (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Burl peaked:
Related names
Burl 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.