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Burdette

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Burdette is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 769th, in 1922.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192274 births
Best rank
#769in 1922
Since 1885
1,841people given the name
Babies named Burdette, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,714 boys have been named Burdette in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 74 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 74 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 127 girls have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Burdette
1880s5
1890s5
1900s34
1910s383
1920s495
1930s361
1940s193
1950s127
1960s80
1970s31

In 1922, its biggest year

Burdette was the 769th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.

Names that rose and fell with Burdette

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.