Courtland
Courtland was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,592 among boys’ names; 4,100 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,320 Americans named Courtland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Courtland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Courtland?
#3,592 among boys’ names, 2025
Courtland fell from #2,817 in 2015 to #3,592 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.9 to 18.1 per million.
138 babies in 1997, the peak
Courtland peaked in 1997, when 138 babies were given it (118 boys, #1,075 among boys’ names). The 31 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,592 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,171 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,360 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,347 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,591 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,504 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,580 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,955 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,006 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,010 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,817 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,897 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,772 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,640 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,177 | 31.6 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,320 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,761 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,957 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 45 | #2,693 | 21.7 |
| 2006 | 37 | #2,989 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,530 | 22.0 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,604 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,547 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,254 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,055 | 26.2 |
| 2000 | 65 | #1,724 | 33.1 |
| 1999 | 74 | #1,515 | 38.5 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,370 | 44.5 |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,075 | 62.6 |
| 1996 | 119 | #1,029 | 62.8 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,217 | 47.3 |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,143 | 50.7 |
| 1993 | 118 | #1,004 | 60.2 |
| 1992 | 102 | #1,087 | 51.1 |
| 1991 | 117 | #984 | 57.9 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,236 | 38.5 |
| 1989 | 60 | #1,408 | 30.0 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,117 | 41.8 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,162 | 36.4 |
| 1986 | 40 | #1,621 | 21.7 |
| 1985 | 50 | #1,374 | 27.1 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,728 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,967 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,065 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 41 | #1,502 | 22.9 |
| 1980 | 45 | #1,414 | 25.2 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,354 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,080 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 38 | #1,495 | 23.1 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,884 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,957 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 30 | #1,626 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,519 | 20.5 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,656 | 17.3 |
| 1971 | 32 | #1,533 | 18.1 |
| 1970 | 36 | #1,397 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 18 | #1,991 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,850 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,666 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,151 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,287 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,493 | 14.1 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,914 | 8.9 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,207 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,437 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,055 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,862 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 21 | #1,736 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,512 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,181 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,067 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,840 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,913 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,588 | 11.8 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,558 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,623 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,958 | 8.5 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,830 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,661 | 11.5 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,648 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,944 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,404 | 16.9 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,592 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,390 | 18.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,925 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,358 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,893 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,916 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,722 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,742 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,951 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,156 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,011 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,017 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,650 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,568 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,866 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,846 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,433 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,804 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,541 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,684 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,607 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,160 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,518 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,553 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,892 | 17.3 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,319 | 28.6 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,589 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,067 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #1,991 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,400 | 29.0 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,700 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,646 | 23.3 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,335 | 36.0 |
| 1901 | 6 | #972 | 56.4 |
| 1888 | 6 | #947 | 49.6 |
| 1886 | 5 | #997 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Courtland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,100 Americans recorded as Courtland, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 31 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Courtland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Courtland, and how old are they?
3,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 4,100 Americans ever recorded as Courtland. The median Courtland alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,798 people named Courtland (267 women and girls, 2,531 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,228 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 56 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 217 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 398 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 928 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 509 |
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).
Where are babies named Courtland born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,782 | 0.6× |
Where Courtland is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Courtland is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Courtland with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,578 babies since 1880, Courtland is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 65 babies (48%), again the most given.
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 Courtland
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 Courtland and names like it
- Compare Courtland and CortlandBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCourtland peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Courtland since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Courtland.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Courtland alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.