Burley

Where Burley comes from

Burley 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1875
    Burley Bayer born
    American baseball player
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #547
    12 babies named Burley — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1905
    Burley E. Parke born
    American horse trainer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Burley Bayer · American baseball player, 1875–1933
  • Burley E. Parke · American horse trainer, 1905–1977
  • Burley Mitchell · American judge, born 1940

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.