Gurnie
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gurnie has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Gurnie, 1951
1 in 526,000
Gurnie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gurnie?
Gurnie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1951, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1951
- 1 in 526,000
- 7 of 3,682,692 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 269,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1951
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 364,665 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gurnie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1951 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 364,665 children born in 1951 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gurnie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gurnies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gurnie was born before 1929 — so the typical Gurnie is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 7
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (31).
Is Gurnie 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 1915 (8)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.4% average annual change
Spellings of Gurnie
Gurnie is not the most common spelling — Ernie is, with 44.1% against Gurnie's 0.29%.
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 Gurnie is used
Across 1910–2025, Gurnie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 494,010 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North 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. Gurnie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gurnie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gurnie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gurnie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.