Meaning not yet researched.
Burke: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #799 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #799 in 1881; #2,649 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Burke in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,649 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #799.
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Burke: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #799 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 78 (2013).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Burke, making it the 2,649th most common boys’ name of the year, up 577 places from #3,226 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 37 boys named Burke in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #799, reached in 1881. The most boys given the name in a single year was 78, in 2013. For comparison, it was #2,280 in 2015 and #1,824 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Burke in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 4,188 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 681 babies named Burke.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 559 US boys were named Burke; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Burke ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #829 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Burk, Burch and Burce are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Burk (244), Burch (157), Burce (22).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Burke in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #829 | #726 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 49 | #2,649 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,226 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,616 | 53 | #2,515 |
| 2022 | — | — | 52 | #2,592 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,690 | 71 | #2,064 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,555 | 66 | #2,116 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,559 | 69 | #2,088 |
| 2018 | — | — | 55 | #2,395 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,105 | 49 | #2,572 |
| 2016 | — | — | 58 | #2,281 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,266 | 58 | #2,280 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,329 | 72 | #1,981 |
| 2013 | — | — | 78 | #1,831 |
| 2012 | — | — | 64 | #2,107 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,182 | 71 | #1,950 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,299 | 63 | #2,122 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,596 | 59 | #2,235 |
| 2008 | — | — | 66 | #2,090 |
| 2007 | — | — | 63 | #2,142 |
| 2006 | — | — | 62 | #2,106 |
| 2005 | — | — | 74 | #1,777 |
| 2004 | — | — | 46 | #2,426 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,939 |
| 2002 | — | — | 55 | #2,001 |
| 2001 | — | — | 54 | #1,986 |
| 2000 | — | — | 55 | #1,897 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,774 | 50 | #1,936 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,238 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,459 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,933 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,883 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,695 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,795 |
| 1992 | — | — | 21 | #3,121 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #3,005 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,790 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,548 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,614 |
| 1987 | — | — | 28 | #2,122 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,927 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,234 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,845 |
| 1983 | — | — | 45 | #1,401 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,520 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,144 |
| 1980 | — | — | 33 | #1,736 |
| 1979 | — | — | 28 | #1,906 |
| 1978 | — | — | 42 | #1,439 |
| 1977 | — | — | 31 | #1,710 |
| 1976 | — | — | 41 | #1,391 |
| 1975 | — | — | 35 | #1,509 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,249 |
| 1973 | — | — | 42 | #1,273 |
| 1972 | — | — | 58 | #1,061 |
| 1971 | — | — | 49 | #1,166 |
| 1970 | — | — | 62 | #1,032 |
| 1969 | — | — | 53 | #1,065 |
| 1968 | — | — | 58 | #959 |
| 1967 | — | — | 41 | #1,166 |
| 1966 | — | — | 38 | #1,217 |
| 1965 | — | — | 51 | #1,032 |
| 1964 | — | — | 57 | #1,001 |
| 1963 | — | — | 52 | #1,052 |
| 1962 | — | — | 23 | #1,674 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,694 |
| 1960 | — | — | 31 | #1,434 |
| 1959 | — | — | 24 | #1,628 |
| 1958 | — | — | 34 | #1,321 |
| 1957 | — | — | 40 | #1,235 |
| 1956 | — | — | 31 | #1,386 |
| 1955 | — | — | 32 | #1,340 |
| 1954 | — | — | 39 | #1,204 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,717 |
| 1952 | — | — | 29 | #1,407 |
| 1951 | — | — | 30 | #1,347 |
| 1950 | — | — | 17 | #1,824 |
| 1949 | — | — | 24 | #1,510 |
| 1948 | — | — | 24 | #1,491 |
| 1947 | — | — | 26 | #1,452 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,044 |
| 1945 | — | — | 22 | #1,413 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,582 |
| 1943 | — | — | 30 | #1,260 |
| 1942 | — | — | 25 | #1,385 |
| 1941 | — | — | 23 | #1,417 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #1,993 |
| 1939 | — | — | 21 | #1,458 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,445 |
| 1937 | — | — | 17 | #1,699 |
| 1936 | — | — | 16 | #1,736 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,455 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,509 |
| 1933 | — | — | 25 | #1,335 |
| 1932 | — | — | 18 | #1,722 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,703 |
| 1930 | — | — | 16 | #1,897 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,620 |
| 1928 | — | — | 28 | #1,388 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,877 |
| 1926 | — | — | 25 | #1,475 |
| 1925 | — | — | 24 | #1,540 |
| 1924 | — | — | 30 | #1,358 |
| 1923 | — | — | 20 | #1,761 |
| 1922 | — | — | 35 | #1,225 |
| 1921 | — | — | 26 | #1,482 |
| 1920 | — | — | 28 | #1,388 |
| 1919 | — | — | 22 | #1,578 |
| 1918 | — | — | 23 | #1,548 |
| 1917 | — | — | 17 | #1,821 |
| 1916 | — | — | 21 | #1,558 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | #1,612 |
| 1914 | — | — | 16 | #1,556 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,453 |
| 1912 | — | — | 16 | #1,186 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,627 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,183 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #867 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #799 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).