Cortnee — girls' name

What the Data Says About Cortnee

The Social Security Administration has registered 617 babies named Cortnee between 1975 and 2009, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cortnee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 44 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cortnee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 276 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cortnee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Cortnee in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cortnee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 617 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.