Girls' name · since 1985
Cartney
29 babies named Cartney in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #41,228 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 29
- born since 1985
- 1980s
- peak decade
Cartney sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 29 recorded since 1985.
Cartney has 29 recorded births among girls since 1985, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1985 to 1990.
- #41,228 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 29 born since 1985
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cartney ranks #41,228 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 29 born since 1985, peaking in the 1980s.
- #41,228 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 29
- born since 1985
- 1980s
- peak decade
Cartney's 29 recorded births place it above 42.52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cartney's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Cartney's full recorded timeline at 1989, 52% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 48% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1985, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1987 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Cartney popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1985–1990
- Peak year (1987)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Cartney by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (22 births, 76% of the file).
1980s was Cartney's strongest decade.
22 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 76% of all-time use.
Cartney births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
22 births
- 1990s 7
1990s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 22 births (76% of all-time use).
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- Cartney's decade-level peak was the 1980s (22 total births); usage has since declined to 7 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cartney: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1987)
Similar record span (~5 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1985–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cartney draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.