Masculine dossier · first seen 1884

Burgess

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Burgess
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1922

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1884Peak 19222024

Peak year

1922

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,089

Burgess has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1922, when 28 boys were named Burgess.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,089 Americans have been named Burgess and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1884.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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