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Burnice

girls’ name · 54%boys’ name · 46%FadedCompare

Burnice is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 844th, in 1907.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192567 births
Best rank
#844in 1907
Since 1893
2,926people given the name
Babies named Burnice, by year of birthgirlsboys
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The story in the numbers

1,593 girls have been named Burnice in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, 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 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 34%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Burnice is used for both sexes: 46% of its bearers are boys (1,333), most of them born around 1924.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Burnice
1890s21
1900s102
1910s343
1920s536
1930s317
1940s174
1950s86
1960s14

In 1925, its biggest year

Burnice was the 906th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.

Names that rose and fell with Burnice

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.