Girls' name · since 2008
Cortana
198 babies named Cortana in U.S. Social Security records since 2008, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #19,903 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 198
- born since 2008
- 2010s
- peak decade
Cortana is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 198 have been recorded since 2008.
Cortana has 198 recorded births among girls since 2008, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2024.
- #19,903 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 198 born since 2008
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cortana ranks #19,903 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 198 born since 2008, peaking in the 2010s.
- #19,903 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 198
- born since 2008
- 2010s
- peak decade
Cortana's 198 recorded births place it above 72.44% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cortana's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Cortana splits its recorded history at 2016: 41% of all births land in the more recent half, 59% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2018 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2015 peak of 30 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Cortana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2024
- Peak year (2015)
- 30
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Cortana by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (135 births, 68% of the file).
2010s was Cortana's strongest decade.
135 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 68% of all-time use.
Cortana births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 19
2000s
19 births
- 2010s
2010s
135 births
- 2020s 44
2020s
44 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 135 births (68% of all-time use).
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- Cortana's decade-level peak was the 2010s (135 total births); usage has since declined to 44 in the 2020s -- 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 Cortana: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2015)
Similar record span (~16 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, 2008–2024 (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 Cortana 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.