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Burt

Boys' name

Short form of Burton

Burt has been given to 6,555 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1956, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Burt, 2017

1 in 596,000

Burt over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Burt: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Burton

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Burt means

Burt is a short form of Burton.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Burt is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɜɹt/ and /ˈbɜːt/ for Burt.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Burt → Burton. The family’s meaning is “fortified town”, recorded in the naming reference for Burton.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Burton.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Burt is pronounced /bɝt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,555 boys were recorded with the name Burt between 1880 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 152 in 1956; its best national rank was #258 in 1880.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Burt?

Burt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Burt 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Burt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Burts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Burt was born before 1949 — so the typical Burt is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.88%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,186
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (1,238).

Is Burt 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (152)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#258
1880

Spellings of Burt

Burt is not the most common spelling — Kurt is, with 31.7% against Burt's 2.4%.

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 Burt is used

Across 1910–2025, Burt was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 59,154 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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. Burt has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Burt around the world

Where Burt 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
    2004–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–1977
    #455
    in 1977

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Burt

People whose public names include Burt, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Burt in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Burt. Linked forms have their own page here.

Birt

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Burt by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#258
1880
Peak year
1956
152 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
6,555
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Burt

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

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Names with a curve like Burt

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Burt, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Burt

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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