Burl

Where Burl comes from

Burl hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #482 among boys — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #377
    19 babies named Burl — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #795.
  4. 1909
    Burl Ives born
    American musician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Burl Ives · American musician, 1909–1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.