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.

Burnes*

#18,400 most common boys' name of all time · #48,204 across all names · 92% male / 8% female · used 1916–1940 · notable crossover

Rank among boys
#18,400
Rank overall
#48,204 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
11 of 146
All-time
62
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1919 #3,681
Best rank
#3,391 1939
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
19201940

Burnes first appears in 1916. 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
1940 — 5 5 #3,782
1939 — 6 6 #3,391
1927 5 — 5 —
1924 — 5 5 #4,696
1923 — 5 5 #4,645
1922 — 6 6 #4,155
1921 — 6 6 #4,166
1920 — 6 6 #4,137
1919 — 7 7 #3,681
1917 — 6 6 #3,878
1916 — 5 5 #4,319