Burt
Burt is a boy's name that peaked in 1956, when it was the 615th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2017. About 3,000 Burts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Burt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,555
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 615th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Burts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,555 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,000 are alive — 46 in every hundred. Roughly 6 of them are children and 1,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 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 Burts
- Burt Lancaster (1913–1994)American actor
- Burt Reynolds (1936–2018)American actor
- Burt Bacharach (1928–2023)American pianist, composer, producer
- Burt Young (1940–2023)American actor
- Burt Ward (born 1945)American actor
- Burt Rutan (born 1943)American aerospace engineer
- Burt Kwouk (1930–2016)British actor
- Burt Munro (1899–1978)New Zealand motorcycle racer
People named Burt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Burt is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Burt is most concentrated in Hawaii (7.1×), New York (3.8×), California (2.0×), Michigan (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Burt peaked:
Burt elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Burt | 39 | 2,707th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Burt 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.