Cortney — unisex name

What the Data Says About Cortney

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,923 babies named Cortney between 1963 and 2023, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cortney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 1,261 babies received it in a single year. Cortney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,166 additional births since 1943.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cortney performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 7,054 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Cortney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,288 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Cortney in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cortney 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 16,923 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.