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Burnest vs Burnice

American parents have registered 2,926 Burnices since 1880, against 34 Burnests. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Burnest against Burnice, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Burnest Burnice

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Burnice has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1893 to 1986. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1952, when Burnest had 5 and Burnice had 24.

Side by side

  Burnest Burnice
Total US births 342,926
Most in one year 9105
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8600
Median age today 7976
Peak year 19211925
Best rank 2,986th boys905th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19211893
Girls / boys 0 / 341,593 / 1,333

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Burnests alive today are over 79; half the Burnices are over 76. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Burnest and Burnice.