Boy
Burl
The name Burl carries the meaning "Also short for Berlin". It belongs mostly to the 1920s at this point. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
EnglishEnglish – "knotted wood" (surname origin)
EtymologyAlso short for Berlin
Births by decade
1900s
180
1910s
989
1920s
1,675
1930s
1,292
1940s
993
1950s
832
1960s
452
1970s
265
1980s
144
1990s
42
2000s
18
2010s
12
Peaked in the 1920s · 6,894 total U.S. births since 1900