Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Burford

#19,591 most common boys' name of all time · #51,481 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1917–1936

Rank among boys
#19,591
Rank overall
#51,481 of 105,966
First appeared
1917
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
51
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1922 #2,796
Best rank
#2,796 1922
Girls Boys peak 11/yr
1920

Burford first appears in 1917. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1936 — 5 5 #3,909
1931 — 8 8 #3,066
1929 — 6 6 #3,861
1922 — 11 11 #2,796
1920 — 7 7 #3,767
1919 — 9 9 #3,099
1917 — 5 5 #4,420