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.

Burness

#21,020 most common boys' name of all time · #55,375 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1960

Rank among boys
#21,020
Rank overall
#55,375 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
40
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1927 #3,392
Best rank
#3,392 1927
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
192019401960

Burness 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
1960 — 5 5 #4,316
1947 — 5 5 #4,067
1944 — 5 5 #3,737
1937 — 5 5 #3,852
1927 — 8 8 #3,392
1918 — 6 6 #4,055
1916 — 6 6 #3,813