Burnett
Burnett reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 1,073, and has been recorded 1,843 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1994. About 580 Burnetts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Burnett boys named Burnett
Girls and boys called Burnett
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 282 girls and 1,561 boys in all, and in 1962 the split was 5 to 21.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 37 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,843
- Estimated living today
- 580
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,073rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 282 / 1,561
How old the living Burnetts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,843 babies given the name since 1882, about 580 are alive — 31 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 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.
Where Burnett is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Burnett is most concentrated in South Carolina (13.1×), Texas (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Burnett peaked:
Related names
Burnett against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.