Cort
Cort was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,191 among boys’ names; 1,918 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Cort and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cort by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cort mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cort is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cort?
#6,191 among boys’ names, 2025
Cort fell from #2,975 in 2015 to #6,191 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 8.2 per million.
57 babies in 2011, the peak
Cort peaked in 2011, when 57 boys were given it, #2,266 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,191 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,703 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,974 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,923 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,083 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,728 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,811 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,584 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,771 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,009 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,975 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,989 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,899 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,910 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,266 | 30.0 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,319 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,906 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,757 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 46 | #2,652 | 22.2 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,164 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,495 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,702 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,179 | 25.3 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,092 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,309 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 53 | #1,943 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,407 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,030 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,615 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,334 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,399 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,236 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,052 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,600 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,759 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,318 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 20 | #2,999 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,088 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,964 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,682 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,387 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,743 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,096 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,138 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,899 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,548 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,609 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,390 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,916 | 15.8 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,125 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,015 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,170 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,053 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,450 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,383 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,529 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 18 | #1,990 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,972 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,378 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,620 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 32 | #1,362 | 17.2 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,744 | 10.5 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,665 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,150 | 21.8 |
| 1961 | 27 | #1,554 | 12.7 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,054 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,922 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,777 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,292 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,685 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,235 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,971 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,912 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,411 | 14.9 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,993 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,390 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,831 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,783 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,698 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,741 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,521 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,659 | 3.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,942 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cort a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cort has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cort: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cort, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,918 Americans ever recorded as Cort. The median Cort alive today is 27 years old; half are between 17 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,716 people named Cort (25 women and girls, 1,691 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,705 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 230 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 328 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 647 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 295 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,788 babies since 1880, Cort is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 22 babies (64%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cort
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cort and names like it
- Compare Cort and KortBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCort peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cort since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Cort.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cort alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.