How Many People Are Named Burt?
people named Burt are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 113,663 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,555 babies named Burt in Social Security records from 1880 to 2017, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
152 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of BURTON.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Burt in English. Counting Burt and these spellings together, about 13,132 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Burt in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Burt alive today is about 62 years old, and 59% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 52 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Burt first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1956, to 152 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2017.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2017
🏆 Rank History
Burt has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #258, in 1880.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #258 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #664 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Burt alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Burt were born in California than in any other state: about 305 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Burt was given 6.4 times as often in Hawaii, 3.4 times in New York and 2.9 times in California.
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