How Many People Are Named Burley?
people named Burley are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 519,429 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,350 babies named Burley in Social Security records from 1880 to 2020, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
64 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Burley (99.6%) were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 3.1% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 1960s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Burley alive today is about 65 years old, and 67% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 56 and 78 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Burley first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 64 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2020.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2020
🏆 Rank History
Burley has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #548, in 1884.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #548 (1884) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,047 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Burley alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Burley were born in Kentucky than in any other state: about 19 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Burley was given 11.4 times as often in Kentucky, 8.9 times in Virginia and 5.5 times in North Carolina.
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