Burnice vs Burrell
American parents have registered 2,926 Burnices since 1880, against 1,475 Burrells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Burnice Burrell
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 102 years in which either name was published, Burnice for 67 years and Burrell for 35 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1881–1899 Burrell ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1900–1959 Burnice ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1966–1972 Burrell ahead
- 1973–1976 Burnice ahead
- 1981–2001 Burrell ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Burnice | Burrell | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,926 | 1,475 |
| Most in one year | 105 | 38 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 600 | 400 |
| Median age today | 76 | 67 |
| Peak year | 1925 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 905th girls | 1,122nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1893 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 1,593 / 1,333 | 0 / 1,475 |
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 Burrells are over 67. That is 9 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 Burrell.