Burl

Where Burl comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Burl.

Burl through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #482 among boys, with 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #377
    19 babies named Burl, its best rank.
  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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.