Cortney
Cortney was last recorded in 2025, when 7 babies were given it; 20,096 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,400 Americans named Cortney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 33 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cortney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cortney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,708, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
1,384 babies in 1990, the peak
Cortney peaked in 1990, when 1,384 babies were given it (1,261 girls, #226 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #9,902 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #12,703 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,708 | 13 | #6,606 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 11 | #7,354 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,776 | 7 | #9,931 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,817 | 9 | #8,199 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,665 | 8 | #9,054 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,090 | |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,869 | 9 | #8,285 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,494 | 19 | #4,982 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,716 | 18 | #5,092 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,776 | 22 | #4,416 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,066 | 13 | #6,311 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,663 | 20 | #4,719 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,242 | 27 | #3,810 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,512 | 15 | #5,790 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,858 | 31 | #3,488 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,596 | 32 | #3,427 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,897 | 21 | #4,525 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,192 | 18 | #4,898 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,969 | 14 | #5,621 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,578 | 24 | #3,749 |
| 2003 | 156 | #1,320 | 25 | #3,543 |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,363 | 17 | #4,532 |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,194 | 20 | #3,992 |
| 2000 | 273 | #825 | 18 | #4,238 |
| 1999 | 296 | #754 | 32 | #2,673 |
| 1998 | 357 | #646 | 31 | #2,661 |
| 1997 | 400 | #581 | 36 | #2,315 |
| 1996 | 467 | #510 | 28 | #2,689 |
| 1995 | 620 | #414 | 34 | #2,302 |
| 1994 | 593 | #424 | 36 | #2,224 |
| 1993 | 755 | #341 | 51 | #1,696 |
| 1992 | 854 | #320 | 50 | #1,694 |
| 1991 | 922 | #302 | 98 | #1,099 |
| 1990 | 1,261 | #226 | 123 | #926 |
| 1989 | 1,024 | #262 | 144 | #828 |
| 1988 | 953 | #265 | 151 | #767 |
| 1987 | 751 | #325 | 152 | #742 |
| 1986 | 758 | #315 | 137 | #775 |
| 1985 | 731 | #325 | 141 | #750 |
| 1984 | 618 | #370 | 128 | #766 |
| 1983 | 552 | #397 | 147 | #706 |
| 1982 | 584 | #395 | 131 | #766 |
| 1981 | 621 | #375 | 116 | #816 |
| 1980 | 462 | #459 | 144 | #730 |
| 1979 | 343 | #545 | 120 | #789 |
| 1978 | 355 | #522 | 117 | #780 |
| 1977 | 306 | #570 | 145 | #706 |
| 1976 | 322 | #541 | 83 | #914 |
| 1975 | 191 | #749 | 61 | #1,069 |
| 1974 | 171 | #794 | 43 | #1,293 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,360 | 29 | #1,615 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,107 | 26 | #1,735 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,831 | 22 | #1,931 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,316 | 15 | #2,415 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,260 | 27 | #1,573 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,805 | 18 | #1,904 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,230 | 15 | #2,046 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,167 | 11 | #2,498 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,247 | 12 | #2,387 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 12 | #2,441 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,777 | 12 | #2,438 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 12 | #2,404 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #2,932 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 10 | #2,717 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,570 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #3,927 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,496 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #3,787 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,640 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cortney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,096 Americans recorded as Cortney, 84% are girls and 16% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 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 Cortney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cortney, and how old are they?
19,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 20,096 Americans ever recorded as Cortney. The median Cortney alive today is 37 years old; half are between 33 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 16,609 people named Cortney (14,549 women and girls, 2,060 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 61 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,070 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 262 |
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).
Where are babies named Cortney born?
The states with the most babies named Cortney are Texas, California and Ohio, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,360 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 1,357 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 1,046 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 961 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 877 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 811 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 766 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 751 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 640 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 595 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Cortney is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cortney is most over-represented in Utah: since 1943 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cortney with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 326,499 babies since 1880, Cortney is the second most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 163 babies (4.3%), the third most given that year.
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 Cortney
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Thao | 1,237 |
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 Cortney and names like it
- Compare Cortney and CourtneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCortney peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cortney since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Cortney.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cortney alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.