Burnice vs Burnie
American parents have registered 2,926 Burnices since 1880, against 938 Burnies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Burnice Burnie
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
Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Burnice for 74 years and Burnie for 16 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1888–1896 Burnie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1899–1962 Burnice ahead
- 1965–1973 Burnie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1978–1986 Burnice ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Burnice | Burnie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,926 | 938 |
| Most in one year | 105 | 29 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 600 | 270 |
| Median age today | 76 | 70 |
| Peak year | 1925 | 1916 |
| Best rank | 905th girls | 1,335th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1893 | 1888 |
| Girls / boys | 1,593 / 1,333 | 62 / 876 |
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 Burnices alive today are over 76; half the Burnies are over 70. That is 6 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: Burnice and Burnie.