Courtnay
Courtnay was last recorded in 1998, when 8 babies were given it; 477 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Courtnay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Courtnay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,317, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1985, the peak
Courtnay peaked in 1985, when 24 girls were given it, #3,539 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 8 | #10,317 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,180 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,819 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,918 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,490 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,192 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,371 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,451 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,094 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,604 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 15 | #5,378 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,497 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,229 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,539 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,361 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,145 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,379 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,776 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,179 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,664 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,104 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,635 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,562 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,610 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,130 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,605 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,463 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,866 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,473 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,480 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,036 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,090 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,601 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,378 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Courtnay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 477 Americans recorded as Courtnay, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Courtnay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Courtnay, and how old are they?
An estimated 455 Americans named Courtnay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 37 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 481 people named Courtnay (431 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 461 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 323,084 babies since 1880, Courtnay is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 163 babies recorded by SSA was a Courtnay (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 Courtnay
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 Courtnay and names like it
- Compare Courtnay and CourtneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCourtnay peaked in 1985.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Courtnay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Courtnay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.