Courage — #7408 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Courage

The Social Security Administration has registered 257 babies named Courage between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Courage currently holds the #7408 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Courage is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 62 additional births since 2008.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Courage performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 117 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Courage shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Courage 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 257 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.