Burnie
About 938 American babies have been named Burnie since 1888, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 1988. About 270 Burnies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Burnie boys named Burnie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 938
- Estimated living today
- 270
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,335th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 62 / 876
How old the living Burnies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 938 babies given the name since 1888, about 270 are alive — 29 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 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 Burnie is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Burnie peaked:
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Burnie 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.