Burley
Burley reached its high-water mark in 1921 at number 920, and has been recorded 2,350 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 660 Burleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Burley boys named Burley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,350
- Estimated living today
- 660
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 920th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 40 / 2,310
How old the living Burleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,350 babies given the name since 1880, about 660 are alive — 28 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Burleys
- Walter Burley Griffin (1876–1937)American architect and landscape architect
- Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852–1918)President of FIFA from 1906 to 1918
People named Burley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Burley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Burley is most concentrated in Kentucky (15.8×), West Virginia (11.0×), Arkansas (9.0×), Virginia (8.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Burley peaked:
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Burley against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.