Cortny
Cortny was last recorded in 2001, when 8 babies were given it; 197 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cortny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cortny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,236, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1991, the peak
Cortny peaked in 1991, when 20 girls were given it, #4,835 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 | #11,236 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,565 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,911 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,315 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,995 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,760 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,916 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,980 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,010 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,073 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 20 | #4,835 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,335 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,562 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,351 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,154 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,789 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,267 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,619 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,353 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,336 | 4.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,441 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cortny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cortny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cortny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cortny, and how old are they?
An estimated 192 Americans named Cortny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 31 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 258 people named Cortny (228 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Cortny?
Cortny is a less common spelling of Cortney: SSA has recorded 197 Cortny and 20,096 Cortney since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 311,292 babies since 1880, Cortny is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 123 babies recorded by SSA was a Cortny (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Cortny
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 Cortny and names like it
- Compare Cortny and CortneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCortny peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Cortny.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cortny alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.