Burk

Where Burk comes from

Burk 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. 1891
    Debut at its peak, #841
    #841 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1938
    Burk Uzzle born
    American photojournalist
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Burk Uzzle · American photojournalist, born 1938
  • Burk Sharpless · American screenwriter

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.