Cortni — girls' name
823 babies named Cortni in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Cortni was born in this single decade.
52 babies were named Cortni in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cortni
The Social Security Administration has registered 823 babies named Cortni between 1974 and 2022, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cortni currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 52 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cortni performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 339 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Cortni shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Cortni in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cortni 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 823 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.
Cortni at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cortni popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1974
- Peak year (1990)
- 52
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
823 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 52 births in a single year.
Cortni by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 339 births that decade — 41% of Cortni's all-time total
Cortni decade highlights
- Peak decade 339 births
- Runner-up 284 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Cortni's strongest decade
339 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Cortni by state
Where Cortni concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 32 | 3.9% |
| #2 | California | | 17 | 2.1% |
| #3 | Florida | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.6% |
32 of 823 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.9% of nationwide
- California 2.1% of nationwide
- Florida 0.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.