# Burnell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/burnell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,383 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,790 / 593 (18% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 9 | 3,166 |
| 1946 | 6 | 4,488 |
| 1947 | 7 | 4,402 |
| 1948 | 9 | 3,622 |
| 1949 | 8 | 3,924 |
| 1951 | 6 | 4,904 |
| 1952 | 15 | 2,827 |
| 1953 | 11 | 3,504 |
| 1954 | 8 | 4,317 |
| 1955 | 10 | 3,805 |
| 1957 | 9 | 4,237 |
| 1958 | 5 | 6,191 |
| 1961 | 5 | 6,662 |
| 1963 | 5 | 6,693 |
| 1964 | 6 | 6,084 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | 6,577 |
| 1998 | 12 | 5,190 |
| 1999 | 12 | 5,353 |
| 2000 | 5 | 10,583 |
| 2001 | 5 | 10,796 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,120 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,244 |
| 2006 | 6 | 10,859 |
| 2010 | 7 | 9,850 |
| 2011 | 7 | 9,769 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,615 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,491 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,575 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,334 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12,660 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.