Courtenay — unisex name

What the Data Says About Courtenay

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,189 babies named Courtenay between 1925 and 2005, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Courtenay currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 67 babies received it in a single year. Courtenay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 246 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Courtenay performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 359 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Courtenay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Courtenay in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Courtenay 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 1,189 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.