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Burak

#10,882 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly horse, through البُرَاق

Burak has been given to 358 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #10,882 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Burak, 2025

1 in 553,000

Burak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Burak: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly horse, through البُرَاق

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Burak means

Burak belongs to the name family reached through Burak → البُرَاق. Its meaning is “horse”.

Origin, language, and formation

Burak is used in Turkish.

Burak comes through Ottoman Turkish براق and Arabic البُرَاق.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include البُرَاق.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Burak is pronounced /buˈɾak/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 358 boys were recorded with the name Burak between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,302 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,601 in 2020 to #10,882 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,568 in 2015 to #10,882 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Burak?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,882
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Burak sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Burak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Buraks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Burak was born before 2008 — so the typical Burak is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
358
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Burak rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−5,614
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,281
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,314
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2024 (18)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,302
1995

Spellings of Burak

Burak is not the most common spelling — Brad is, with 69.0% against Burak's 0.30%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Burak is used

Across 1910–2025, Burak was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 697,233 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Burak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Burak around the world

Where Burak ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2025
    #2,215
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2004–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Burak by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,882
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,281
Best rank ever
#4,302
1995
Peak year
2024
18 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
358
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Burak

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Burak

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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