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How popular is “Burley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Burley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Burley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Burley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Burley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Burley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Burley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Burley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 7 0.000034742 7 -100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 -100%
1882 9 0.000040626 9 -100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1884 12 0.000049289 12 -100%
1885 8 0.000033215 8 -100%
1886 8 0.000031334 8 -100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 -100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 -100%
1889 9 0.000031148 9 -100%
1890 8 0.000026543 8 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 12 0.000035888 12 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1895 9 0.00002564 9 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 19 0.000042198 5 14 -47%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 -100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 -100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 -100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 -100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 -100%
1911 11 0.000017073 11 -100%
1912 34 0.000034411 34 -100%
1913 29 0.000025503 29 -100%
1914 34 0.000024005 34 -100%
1915 49 0.000026741 49 -100%
1916 40 0.000020678 40 -100%
1917 58 0.000028902 6 52 -79%
1918 50 0.00002303 50 -100%
1919 46 0.000021798 5 41 -78%
1920 34 0.000015027 34 -100%
1921 64 0.000027415 6 58 -81%
1922 58 0.000025337 5 53 -83%
1923 49 0.000021281 49 -100%
1924 38 0.000015956 38 -100%
1925 52 0.000022286 8 44 -69%
1926 55 0.000023956 55 -100%
1927 43 0.00001854 43 -100%
1928 34 0.000015038 34 -100%
1929 40 0.000018247 40 -100%
1930 36 0.000016192 36 -100%
1931 40 0.000019008 40 -100%
1932 36 0.000017051 36 -100%
1933 44 0.000022006 44 -100%
1934 38 0.000018297 38 -100%
1935 35 0.000016747 35 -100%
1936 40 0.000019253 40 -100%
1937 33 0.000015488 33 -100%
1938 29 0.000013107 29 -100%
1939 46 0.000020876 46 -100%
1940 46 0.000019977 5 41 -78%
1941 21 0.000008619 21 -100%
1942 33 0.00001208 33 -100%
1943 41 0.000014526 41 -100%
1944 26 0.000009665 26 -100%
1945 36 0.00001357 36 -100%
1946 29 0.000009076 29 -100%
1947 29 0.00000805 29 -100%
1948 34 0.000009848 34 -100%
1949 30 0.000008609 30 -100%
1950 26 0.000007421 26 -100%
1951 28 0.000007601 28 -100%
1952 28 0.000007372 28 -100%
1953 25 0.000006487 25 -100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 -100%
1955 20 0.000004981 20 -100%
1956 31 0.000007519 31 -100%
1957 27 0.000006425 27 -100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 -100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 -100%
1960 25 0.000006019 25 -100%
1961 24 0.000005794 24 -100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 -100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 -100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 -100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 -100%
1966 23 0.000006617 23 -100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 -100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1971 13 0.000003787 13 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 -100%

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