Cortni
Cortni was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 823 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cortni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cortni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,834, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1990, the peak
Cortni peaked in 1990, when 52 girls were given it, #2,376 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,834 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,543 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,979 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,940 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,648 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,894 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,836 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,678 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,516 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,232 | 16.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 18 | #5,993 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,607 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,664 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,459 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,763 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,507 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,459 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,940 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,044 | 20.6 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,663 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,376 | 27.4 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,530 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,297 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,861 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,372 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,100 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,360 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,708 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,541 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,029 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,633 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,074 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,499 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,469 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,669 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,214 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,035 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cortni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cortni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cortni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cortni, and how old are they?
An estimated 802 Americans named Cortni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 29 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 729 people named Cortni (717 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 802 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Cortni?
Cortni is a less common spelling of Cortney: SSA has recorded 823 Cortni and 20,096 Cortney since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,613 babies since 1880, Cortni is the sixth most given (3.0% of them).
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 Cortni
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 Cortni and names like it
- Compare Cortni and CortneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCortni peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cortni since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Cortni.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cortni alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.