Burt
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Burt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 277 | |
| 1890s | 179 | |
| 1900s | 144 | |
| 1910s | 482 | |
| 1920s | 756 | |
| 1930s | 729 | |
| 1940s | 802 | |
| 1950s | 1,238 | |
| 1960s | 922 | |
| 1970s | 669 | |
| 1980s | 262 | |
| 1990s | 70 | |
| 2000s | 19 | |
| 2010s | 6 |
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.
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Dellpeak 1953
- Corneliouspeak 1921
- Irapeak 1947
- Lewpeak 1959
- Hirampeak 1920
- Berrypeak 1963
- Bertpeak 1918
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.