Burns

Where Burns comes from

Burns 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. 1873
    Burns Mantle born
    American theatre critic
  2. 1886
    First appearance
    #959 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1891
    Peak, #841
    6 babies named Burns — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Burns Mantle · American theatre critic, 1873–1948

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.