Courteney
Courteney was last recorded in 2008, when 10 babies were given it; 1,129 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Courteney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 28 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Courteney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Courteney mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Courteney is “a female given name, variant of Courtney.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Courteney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,980, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
170 babies in 1995, the peak
Courteney peaked in 1995, when 170 girls were given it, #1,054 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #10,980 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,942 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,056 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,437 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,849 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,114 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,118 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,120 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,906 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,441 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 37 | #3,306 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,428 | 31.0 |
| 1996 | 128 | #1,330 | 73.0 |
| 1995 | 170 | #1,054 | 96.7 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,268 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,860 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,090 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,678 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,698 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,539 | 49.9 |
| 1988 | 83 | #1,581 | 46.6 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,203 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,776 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,105 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,523 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,307 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,621 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,634 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,990 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,290 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,037 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,264 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,737 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,615 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,037 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,202 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Courteney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Courteney has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Courteney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Courteney, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,129 Americans ever recorded as Courteney. The median Courteney alive today is 31 years old; half are between 28 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,078 people named Courteney (1,020 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,111 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 703 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 331 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 321,474 babies since 1880, Courteney is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 163 babies recorded by SSA was a Courteney (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 Courteney
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 Courteney and names like it
- Compare Courteney and CourtneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCourteney peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Courteney since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Courteney.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Courteney alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.