Burkley
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- BURK-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Burkley is a name of English origin, meaning “birch wood clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Burkley mean?
English: variant of Berkeley, an English place name and surname
“birch wood clearing”
Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, where Edward II is said to have been murdered in 1327, made the name famous.
Is Burkley a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Burkley has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Burkley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Burkley, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009. 5 boys were also named Burkley in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Burkley than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Burkley in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 54 girls in the US were given Burkley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,468, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Burkley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
Names like Burkley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wrenley, Briar, Blakely, Brynlee, Oakley, Sevyn, Kinsley, Finley, Kenley, Ensley, Braelynn, Berkley
Other spellings of Burkley
Names related to Burkley
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Burkley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/burkley, updated 20 October 2026.