Cortland
Cortland was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,967 among boys’ names; 2,194 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Cortland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 14 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cortland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cortland?
#3,967 among boys’ names, 2025
Cortland fell from #2,650 in 2015 to #3,967 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 15.8 per million.
62 babies in 2011, the peak
Cortland peaked in 2011, when 62 boys were given it, #2,130 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,967 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,275 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,906 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,704 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,805 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,833 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,356 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,901 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,789 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,115 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,650 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,814 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 50 | #2,466 | 26.4 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,722 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,130 | 32.6 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,592 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,058 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,499 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,317 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,912 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 29 | #3,395 | 14.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,289 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,793 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,380 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,748 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,434 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,825 | 28.1 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,900 | 26.7 |
| 1997 | 53 | #1,794 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 56 | #1,689 | 29.6 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,733 | 26.8 |
| 1994 | 49 | #1,774 | 25.4 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,053 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 52 | #1,658 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 55 | #1,554 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,176 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,105 | 16.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,202 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 31 | #1,980 | 16.6 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,306 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,240 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,446 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,663 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,992 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,900 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,206 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,481 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,635 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,809 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,528 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,706 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,262 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,233 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,844 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,048 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,323 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,507 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,432 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,498 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,815 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,104 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,676 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,897 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,366 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,338 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,399 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,680 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,615 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,299 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,657 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,569 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,620 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,305 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,556 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,529 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,084 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,832 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,047 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,699 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,742 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,602 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,337 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,639 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,288 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,603 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,514 | 7.8 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,686 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,925 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,151 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,598 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,748 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,139 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,903 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,326 | 10.9 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,892 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,213 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,189 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,785 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,561 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,800 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,944 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,268 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,550 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,167 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,921 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,108 | 15.1 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,585 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,205 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,618 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,914 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cortland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,194 Americans recorded as Cortland, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 27 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cortland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cortland, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 2,194 Americans ever recorded as Cortland. The median Cortland alive today is 27 years old; half are between 14 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,653 people named Cortland (113 women and girls, 1,540 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 108 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 514 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 637 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 436 |
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,578 babies since 1880, Cortland is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 65 babies (42%), again the second 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 Cortland
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 Cortland and names like it
- Compare Cortland and CourtlandBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCortland peaked in 2011.
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- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Cortland.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cortland alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.