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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Burney

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

883

peak year 1930

More common than

88%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1930
21 births
Best rank
#774
in 1885
First recorded
1882
#961 that year
Last recorded
1980
no later published record
Average birth year
1936
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
75 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 193021#1,607Peak
  2. 193321#1,504
  3. 194319#1,645
  4. 191518#1,669
  5. 191818#1,833

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #774 in 1885 · peak births 21 in 1930

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

883 boys · 5 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Burney has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.