Burley

Where Burley comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Burley.

  • Vowel-ended
Burley through the years
  1. 1875
    Burley Bayer born
    American baseball player
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #547
    12 babies named Burley, its best rank.
  4. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1905
    Burley E. Parke born
    American horse trainer
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Burley Bayer · American baseball player, 1875–1933
  • Burley E. Parke · American horse trainer, 1905–1977
  • Burley Mitchell · American judge, born 1940

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.