Burma
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Burma has been given to 931 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1941, with 47 recorded.
Babies named Burma, 1965
1 in 604,000
Burma 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Burma?
Burma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1965
- 1 in 604,000
- 6 of 3,625,243 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 294,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1965
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,806 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Burma sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,806 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Burma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Burmas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Burma was born before 1939 — so the typical Burma is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 33.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 142
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (309).
Is Burma 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1941 (47)
- Years since peak
- 84
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.4% average annual change
Spellings of Burma
Burma is not the most common spelling — Norma is, with 57.3% against Burma's 0.19%.
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 Burma is used
Across 1910–2025, Burma was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 184,031 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 50,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Kentucky1 in —
- 5Mississippi1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Burma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Burma by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Burma
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Burma
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.