Burgess
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Burgess has been given to 1,089 babies in the U.S. since 1884. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Burgess, 2010
1 in 528,000
Burgess over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Burgess?
Burgess had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 528,000
- 7 of 3,695,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 274,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 365,976 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Burgess sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 365,976 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Burgess. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Burgesss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Burgess was born before 1939 — so the typical Burgess is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 19.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 359
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (208).
Is Burgess 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1922 (28)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.9% average annual change
Where Burgess is used
Across 1910–2025, Burgess was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 238,006 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 2West Virginia1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 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. Burgess has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Burgess by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Burgess
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Burgess
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.