Burnell
Burnell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 819th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192067 births
- Best rank
- #819in 1920
- Since 1906
- 3,383people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,790 boys have been named Burnell in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 67 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 67 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Burnell is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (593), most of them born around 1943.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Burnell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 14 | |
| 1910s | 326 | |
| 1920s | 562 | |
| 1930s | 467 | |
| 1940s | 410 | |
| 1950s | 364 | |
| 1960s | 216 | |
| 1970s | 148 | |
| 1980s | 122 | |
| 1990s | 88 | |
| 2000s | 29 | |
| 2010s | 34 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Burnell was the 819th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Burnell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glenwoodpeak 1920
- Thermanpeak 1919
- Salvadorepeak 1924
- Verlinpeak 1929
- Beaufordpeak 1934
- Hiawathapeak 1934
- Durwoodpeak 1943
- Sherwoodpeak 1938
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.