Burleigh

Where Burleigh comes from

Burleigh 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. 1853
    Burleigh F. Spalding born
    American politician
  2. 1892
    Debut at its peak, #956
    #956 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1893
    Burleigh Grimes born
    American baseball player and manager
  4. 1893
    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
  • Burleigh Grimes · American baseball player and manager, 1893–1985
  • Burleigh F. Spalding · American politician, 1853–1934
  • Burleigh Cruikshank · American football player, 1890–1982
  • Burleigh B. Gardner · American anthropologist, 1902–1988
  • Burleigh Drummond · American musician, born 1951

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.