Recorded 1880–2017 · United States
Burt was most popular in 1956, when 152 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,382 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 6,555 people named Burt.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Burt is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 122 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 2017.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 6,555 American births named Burt between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,055 are estimated to be alive today.
Burt was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Across the whole record Burt is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 6,555 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 3,055 Americans named Burt are alive today — 47% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 64 years old, and half are between 54 and 73.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org