Burley
Burley is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 548th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192158 births
- Best rank
- #548in 1884
- Since 1880
- 2,310people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,310 boys have been named Burley in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 58 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 58 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Burley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 82 | |
| 1890s | 68 | |
| 1900s | 90 | |
| 1910s | 348 | |
| 1920s | 448 | |
| 1930s | 377 | |
| 1940s | 320 | |
| 1950s | 234 | |
| 1960s | 167 | |
| 1970s | 97 | |
| 1980s | 41 | |
| 1990s | 15 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 11 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Burley was the 922nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Burley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lymanpeak 1917
- Harmonpeak 1921
- Albertpeak 1921
- Alfordpeak 1930
- Georgepeak 1921
- Lewispeak 1921
- Frankpeak 1918
- Horacepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.