Burrell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Burrell has been given to 1,475 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1919, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Burrell, 2001
1 in 624,000
Burrell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Burrell?
Burrell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 624,000
- 6 of 3,742,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 432,315 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Burrell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 432,315 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Burrell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Burrells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Burrell was born before 1932 — so the typical Burrell is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 20.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 346
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (301).
Is Burrell 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 1919 (38)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.7% average annual change
Spellings of Burrell
Burrell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 66.7% against Burrell's 0.62%.
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 Burrell is used
Across 1910–2025, Burrell was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 839,259 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Mississippi1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
- 5Virginia1 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. Burrell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Burrell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Burrell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Burrell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.