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Burt

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Burt is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 258th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1956152 births
Best rank
#258in 1880
Since 1880
6,555people given the name
Babies named Burt, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

6,555 boys have been named Burt in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 152 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 152 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1950s alone account for 19%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Burt
1880s277
1890s179
1900s144
1910s482
1920s756
1930s729
1940s802
1950s1,238
1960s922
1970s669
1980s262
1990s70
2000s19
2010s6

In 1956, its biggest year

Burt was the 616th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.

Names that rose and fell with Burt

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.